Kleine Gelukjes Quotes & Sayings

No politician or party favours waste and inefficiency, and every government tries to reduce both
but tax cuts on the promise of ending the gravy train almost never find enough gravy. Of course efficiency matters, waste must be attacked, and of course it matters how both taxes and spending are organized, but despite the highly publicized incidents of misspending that seem to dominate the pages of our mainstream media and disproportionately shape our perceptions, the numbers about waste never add up, and the consequences of tax cuts on public goods and services are always worse than promised. — Alex Himelfarb

The root of joy is gratefulness ... It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. — David Steindl-Rast

Nasty things, you know, gods, they don't much care for anyone other than themselves. — Charlie Higson

Does he behave in rude or improper ways?"
"He's a Bowman. We don't know any better. — Lisa Kleypas

Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973. — Harvey Fierstein

I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires, and that's the last thing I mean by the useful mirror of art. — William Monahan

A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays. — Itzhak Perlman

You raze the old to raise the new. — Justina Chen

I believe that past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior when it comes to religious fanaticism. — Sam Brower

I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own Ordnance Survey Maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place. I shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina. — Bram Stoker

Some people are weatherwise, and most are otherwise. — Benjamin Franklin