Lapperts Hawaiian Quotes & Sayings

I can see well enough on the 28-meter basketball court. — Yao Ming

Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself! — Jean Racine

What was it about women and crying that made me feel like crap? They must have guilt pheromones in their tears. — John Corwin

One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative. — Milton Friedman

Our muddy machine gun pits were transformed into Courage Clubs when bombs fell or Japanese warships pounded us from the sea. There was protocol to be observed, too, and it was natural that the poor fellow who might break into momentary terror should cause pained silence and embarrassed coughs. Everyone looked the other way, like millionaires confronted by the horrifying sight of a club member borrowing five dollars from the waiter. — Robert Leckie

(On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda
Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, representing about three-quarters of the Tutsi then remaining in Rwanda, or 11% of Rwanda's total population, had been killed. — Jared Diamond

I was not elected to produce a pile of vetoes. — William J. Clinton

The Divine Law was revealed to Moses, not only through the Commands that were found written in the Bible, but also through all the later rules and regulations of post-exilic days. These additional laws it was presumed were handed down orally from Moses to Joshua, thence to the Prophets, and later still transmitted to the Scribes, and eventually to the Rabbis. — Maurice H. Harris

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. — Adlai E. Stevenson II

All great gifts come with a great price, Bel murmured. — C.L. Wilson

The labor movement is our brother's keeper! The labor movement is our sister's keeper! — Thomas Perez