Oath Takers Quotes & Sayings

But what really won me over was his butt. What finally made it impossible for me not to like the man was how right out there on the Adventist basepaths, right in front of eighty or ninety of the kind of pious adult spectators who spent their every Sabbath if not their entire lives trying to forget the existence of things like butts, Beal's buns were trying to light a fire by friction inside his jeans; they were gyrating like a washing machine with its load off balance; they were thrashing against his pants like two big halibut against the bottom of a boat. And the wonderful thing, the amazing thing, was how once his older audience got over the shock of it, they began to look amused at, then fascinated by, and finally downright grateful toward his writhing reminder that yes, buns did exist, and yes, every one of us owned not one but two of the things, and yes, like the God who created them in His Image, they did indeed move in mysterious ways. — David James Duncan

When things are beautiful on the surface it is hard to imagine that dying is appropriate for them. — Tessie Regan

Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They're bedfellows."

-General John James
Commandant, USMC
December 11th, 2032 — L. Douglas Hogan

Atheism is not a disease, Your Majesty," Jasnah said dryly. "It's not as if I've caught a foot rash. — Brandon Sanderson

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring. — Ben Elton

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. — Harry S. Truman

So we are being systematically trained to fear this false 'rising crime' tide. This is all part of a system to lock up more people, and impose more control and surveillance. — Jerry Brown

What the women do is become caretakers for the men. In those circumstances, I decided, and many others have, that there's a reality called women's space. There has to be a separate space for women. — Mary Daly

I tell a story, and therefore I exist. — Shekhar Kapur

Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you. — Elizabeth George

Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go. — Lech Walesa

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence. — David Gilmour