Manipulatable Draft Quotes & Sayings

I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result. — Carly Fiorina

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely. — James Weldon Johnson

When you've got a solid commitment and solid objectives, you've got a much better chance of reaching your goal. — Zig Ziglar

I used to go and do some sitting in with Robert Nighthawk when he were playing at the 708 Club in Chicago. He was a tremendous slideman. I never saw him do anything other than play the slide. I never just saw him just use his hand. He always used a slide. He had a little-bitty drummer we called "Shorty". He was about that high [hand gesture]. And he was his drummer. That's all he had was a slide guitar and a drummer. — Junior Wells

People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality. — Joe Biden

I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands. — Dimebag Darrell

Leadership isn't what a team says, but what it does. — Orrin Woodward

I have one abiding religion-human liberty. — Wole Soyinka

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has. — Clint Eastwood

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous. — Ulrich Beck

There were many echoes of Johnson in Lewis. Both were formidable in their learning and in the range of their conversation, both had the same delight in argument, and in spite of their regard for truth, would argue for victory. Lewis had Johnson's handiness with the butt end of a pistol if an argument misfired. Like Johnson, he was a largish, unathletic-looking man, heavy but not tall, with a roundish, florid face that perspired easily and showed networks of tiny blood-vessels on close inspection; he had a dark flop of hair and rather heavily pouched eyes; these eyes gave life to the face, they were large and brown and unusually expressive. The main effects were of a mild, plain powerfulness, and over all there was a sense of simple masculinity, of a virility absorbed into intellectual life. He differed in his youth from most others of his age by seeming to have no sexual problems or preoccupations, or need to talk about them if he had them — Jocelyn Gibb

The day you realise how fragile your civilisation across the natural forces is, it may be too late to build a sounder one! All realisations must happen today, right now! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there. — Joyce Carol Oates

If you want to predict a person's behavior, identify his or her incentives. Leo — Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney