Mcquinn Quotes & Sayings

...More to the point, do their representatives and senators in Washington deliberately prioritize the stated requirement of the Pentagon and CIA above the most basic need of their constituents? Yes, if those legislators have developed the unfortunate tendency to go into a trance every time someone utter the magic phrase "national security." In truth, it happen often enough, and many times of the course of my career I saw Congress respond to that occult incantation like iron filing drawn to a magnet. p 64 — Mike Lofgren

The greatest gift of education, Korya, is the years of shelter provided when learning. Do not think to reduce that learning to facts and the utterances of presumed sages. Much of what one learns in that time is in the sphere of concord, the ways of society, the proprieties of behaviour and thought. Haut would tell you that this is another hard-won achievement of civilization: the time and safe environment in which to learn how to live. When this is destroyed, undermined or discounted, then that civilization is in trouble. — Steven Erikson

Never has a man been so obsessed with his own nipples as Ben Affleck. — Dan McQuinn

Although, we were trampled, our spirit sustains us. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Many times when something irritates us we allow it to fester or grow into a slow burn. We allow our mind to tell us the person is doing it on purpose-just to be irritating. Usually, that is far from the truth — Pam Farrel

Conservatism is rooted in preservation; progressivism advances alteration. These are different love languages. These languages turn on your view of change itself: When you think of America, do you see a country struggling to be maintained or one striving to be made better? — Charles M. Blow

I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one. — Patrick Dempsey

I cannot be a man, with that iron strength. I am a woman. I will be the fire to consume any iron. — Don McQuinn

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery
isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is. — Charles Bukowski

Tattoos were self-expression at its rawest and most permanent form. They weren't for one set of people or another. — Karina Halle

You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships. — Elton John

We didn't disqualify Hillary Clinton to be President of the United States the facts of her life and career disqualify her. — Chris Christie

There can be too much washing but there can never be too many bunnies. — Anna McQuinn

Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I majored in Creative Writing in college. Then I got over it. — Donald E. McQuinn

It doesn't take long in marriage bedore you realize that your spouse doesn't share your instincts. At that point, either you worship God as sovereign and celebrate the different way of looking at the world that your spouse has blessed you with, or you dishonor him by trying to rewrite his story. — Paul David Tripp

With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's like 5 percent. Which means that the parents, the ones that aren't going into stores now, they're no longer buying books for their kids, which is not great. — James Patterson