Muggers Trumped Quotes & Sayings

Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to. — George Horne

Every father wants a daughter to meet the right God, and the right man. Perhaps her father had failed with both. — Kathy Hepinstall

Unlike in simulations, reality bled — Alan Dean Foster

I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected people in a bad way. — Daniel Johns

An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary bias. There is no reason to suppose that any one culture has seized upon an eternal sanity and will stand in history as a solitary solution of the human problem. Even the next generation knows better. Our only scientific course is to consider our own culture, so far as we are able, as one example among innumerable others of the variant configurations of human culture. — Ruth Benedict

The kind of support we have in Oklahoma City, it's the best in the NBA. Phenomenal. Beards in the crowd, the whole nine. The city is really something special. — James Harden

With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them with being communistic or otherwise dictatorial, dangerously aggressive, power hungry, genocidal, given to terrorism or drug trafficking, ready to deny us access to vital resources, harboring weapons of mass destruction, or just inexplicably "anti-American" and "anti-West." Lacking any information to the contrary, the frightened public ... are swept along. — Michael Parenti

As a ghost hunter, I can honestly say it's the living that truly scare me. — L'Aura Hladik

As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and complacency. It can only be explained by the quality of flesh to become calloused to situations that if faced suddenly would provoke blisters and revolt. — George Amos Dorsey

The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart. — Pema Chodron

I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my 'ten minutes'. I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive. — Rumer Godden