Jawzizer Quotes & Sayings

This officer forced his way through the crowd to the carriage, and said: "Mr. President, I have a cause of grievance. This morning I went to speak to Colonel Sherman, and he threatened to shoot me." Mr. Lincoln, who was still standing, said, "Threatened to shoot you?" "Yes, sir, he threatened to shoot me." Mr. Lincoln looked at him, then at me, and stooping his tall, spare form toward the officer, said to him in a loud stage-whisper, easily heard for some yards around: "Well, if I were you, and he threatened to shoot, I would not trust him, for I believe he would do it." The officer turned about and disappeared, and the men laughed at him. — William T. Sherman

I have no desire to spend my life dancing backward. — Tami Hoag

If Lady Brentmor told the prime minister to jump off a bridge," Fiona had once remarked, "Wellington would meekly ask, 'Which one? — Loretta Chase

The bottom line is if the president [Barack Obama] really wants to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, maybe his Justice Department should stop releasing felons, many of which are illegal immigrants, only to the streets of America. — Katie Pavlich

His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last. — Nicolas Chamfort

Artists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others. — Natalia Kills

When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years. — Bjorn Lomborg

Supervisors routinely fabricated statistics on agricultural production and industrial output because they were so fearful of telling their own bosses the truth. Lies were built upon lies, all the way to the top, so it is in fact conceivable that Kim Il-sung himself didn't know when the economy crashed — Barbara Demick

An eye for an eye won't work because all it does is double the number of eyeless people. — Robert Farrar Capon

Every manoeuvre must be the development of a scheme; it must aim at a goal. — Ferdinand Foch

For sixteen years, I had seen just emptiness in those eyes. Her eloquent eyes had lost their expressiveness to destiny. — Anmol Rawat

What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die. — Deepak Chopra

Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are. — Myrtle Reed

What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them. — Jean Paul