Jerkonian Quotes & Sayings

While ants exist in just the right numbers for the rest of the living world, humans have become too numerous. If we were to vanish today, the land environment would return to the fertile balance that existed before the human population explosion. Only a dozen or so species, among which are the crab louse and a mite that lives in the oil glands of our foreheads, depend on us entirely. But if ants were to disappear, tens of thousands of other plants and animal species would perish also, simplifying and weakening land ecosystems almost everywhere. — E. O. Wilson

Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society. — Manuel Castells

Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda. — Gary Johnson

Comprehensive immigration reform would reduce the deficit and help grow the economy. — Scott Peters

If you're having fun, enjoy it. If you're angry, get angry. And when you want to cry, go ahead and cry your heart out. You'll feel a lot better after a good cry. And then you'll be able to laugh again. — Daisuke Moriyama

Honesty scares quite a lot of people. — Beth Myrle Rice

He waited for the black, terrible anger as though for some beast out of the night. But it did not come to him. His bowels seemed weighted with lead, and he walked slowly and lingered against fences and the cold, wet walls of buildings by the way. Descent into the depths until at last there was no further chasm below. He touched the solid bottom of despair and there took ease. — Carson McCullers

Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly — Mary Oliver

The unusual wins out over the usual. — Sam Abell

Sunglasses are more useful to a blind man than freedom of speech is to a man who does not think for himself. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong. — Bertolt Brecht

He felt eyes suddenly upon him because marital telepathy is a terrible thing — Terry Pratchett

Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them. — Anne McCaffrey

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices. — Ayn Rand