Mean Dads Quotes & Sayings

Listen, sweetheart. Don't be a hero. [ ... ] If they actually go through with this hare-brained notion and send you into the fighting, there will come a time when you'll have a choice between staying in your trench and crawling out of it to save a buddy. Or maybe you'll have had enough of getting shelled and decide you just have to run out there and shoot someone. That's what I mean. When that moment comes, you stay down. You keep your head down. You hug the ground. — Michael Grant

You hear more than enough of married people living together miserably. Here is an example to the contrary. Let it be a warning to some of you, and an encouragement to others. In the meantime, I will go on with my story. — Wilkie Collins

The hardest battles have the sweetest victories. — Gena Showalter

How I even do something without knowing what I do?? (Isn't it Strange??) — Deyth Banger

You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything. — Annie Parisse

I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been doing it full-on guerilla style ... I haven't gotten any public sponsor or anything, because I don't want to seem like I'm trying to sell any particular thing. — Daryl Hannah

There are very dark times when even basic human altruism must be an intentional act of rebellion.

--I Am Fire and Air — William Anthony

I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Good fathers, and by that I mean real fathers who are there, have the ability to change almost every social problem we now find ourselves facing. I'd be assumptive enough to say that there isn't a single type of crime or a single problem so big that it couldn't be fixed or wiped out if fathers would just step up. — Dan Pearce

The way I try to phrase it when I am pressed for time is to say that I am sexually submissive, and socially assertive. — Senta Holland

War is a racket. It always has been ... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. — Smedley Butler

Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles. — Virginia Woolf

Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself. — Robert Vaughn

If Fran Lebowitz and Ian Fleming had blessed the world with a love child it would have been author J. Fields Jr. — Edward Medina

I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem. — Mackenzie Crook