Jirsa Grass Quotes & Sayings

But something about his inability to give in, to admit defeat, or to at least acknowledge the incredible power of the technology at Mae's command ... she knew she couldn't give up until she had received some sense of his acquiescence. — Dave Eggers

I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to be paid. — Kurt Schrader

With the help of prominent media outlets, the Royalists, now a political minority, would engage in a scorched-earth strategy to defeat a coming Progressive Revolution, even if it meant crashing the United States as we know it. If they were going down, then the rest of the nation was going down with them.

Which is exactly what happened. — Thom Hartmann

He had simply let his life be dictated to him by others, following one man after the next, the way he had been taught to do. — Hanya Yanagihara

Believing something existed and then finding out it didn't was like reaching the top of the stairs and thinking there was one more step. — Francesca Zappia

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two. — Oscar Wilde

Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades. — Tillie Olsen

If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later. — James Altucher

I wonder if God is really as hot as Alanis Morissette. — Steven A. Moore

Knowledge pertains to knowing and to intelligence while wisdom has to do with the soundness of judgment. — Pearl Zhu

If no resistances or obstacles face you, you must create them. No seduction can proceed without them. — Robert Greene

When I was cognizant of the war, I was very angry at the street-corner liberals who were trying to defame the footsoldier. Because there was a man who had no choice. He was a cog in the wheel, just trying to survive. I was always aware of that. — Sylvester Stallone

I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know. — Michael Leunig

If you had a system that could read all the pages and understand the context, instead of just throwing back 26 million pages to answer your query, it could actually answer the question. You could ask a real question and get an answer as if you were talking to a person who read all those millions and billions of pages, understood them, and synthesized all that information. — Stuart J. Russell

A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography, and so that will be my next thing. — Robert Dessaix