Knickknack Holder Quotes & Sayings

And if someone has friends, and he loses everything in spite of that, it's obvious the friends are to blame. For what they did, or for what they didn't do. — Andrzej Sapkowski

When you are always ready for the worst, then the worst is likely to show up — Gary Hopkins

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off. — Terry Pratchett

Think of yourself as a detective looking for clues to a book's general theme or idea, alert for anything that will make it clearer. — Mortimer J. Adler

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion. — Everett Dirksen

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. — Luis Gutierrez

The thing about living without a father if he's always gone is that it takes a long time to realize he isn't coming home. — Stephen Rodrick

Stewart, with the help of his incredibly astute staff, was combining reporting with commentary, pointing a finger at stupidity and hollowness, and devising a creative hand grenade. All of it had political purpose and direction. It wasn't strictly ideological, although he's obviously left of center. And he was fearless, not in the sense that anybody was going to make him a political prisoner. But he punched up. He punched up, and the shots landed.

I don't think the world is any more absurd now than it's ever been, or more tragic, or more beautiful. But Jon took advantage of these new ways of seeing the world and took out his magic marker and drew circles around the idiocy. He set out to be a working comedian, and he ended up an invaluable patriot. He wants his country to be better, more decent, and to think harder.

~ DAVID REMNICK, editor in chief, the New Yorker — Chris Smith