Mercenary Absolution Quotes & Sayings

Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair. — Dorothea Dix

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health. — Susanna Kaysen

On my hike my brain was left to wander. That was often maddening because it was tedious and monotonous sometimes, but then my the mind would take over, and that's when I'd start hearing the music in my head or thinking deeply about people I know or things that I didn't even know I remembered anymore. Those thoughts would be there. I wouldn't have had them otherwise. — Cheryl Strayed

To know you is to hate you, so loving you must be like suicide. — Billy Joe Armstrong

I wish writing were really like the way Andy staged it here: Me in a mania at a desk while a group of people stand around cheering in awe. More realistically, it's me pooping around on Twitter until I get an idea. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best. — Joe Montana

It's best to let her go, he says.
No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone. — Lauren DeStefano

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking. — J. P. Morgan

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. — George Bernard Shaw

It's always great to perform at home in the good ol' U.S.A. — Dolly Parton