Operation Mongoose Quotes & Sayings

Right now capitalism is winning hands down. It wins every time the need for economic growth is used as the excuse for putting off climate action yet again, or for breaking emission reduction commitments already made. — Naomi Klein

When the correct technique feels wrong, different and confusing there is change and grow — Jeff Allen

If you become indignant, this elevates you to the plane of intellectual. — Tom Wolfe

But when thou findest sensibility of heart, joined with softness of manners, an accomplished mind, and religion, united with sweetness of temper, modest deportment, and a love of domestic life; such is the woman who will divide the sorrows and double the joys of thy life. Take her to thyself; she is worthy to be thy nearest friend, thy companion, the wife of thy bosom. — Noah Webster

SOME DAYS I LOOK BACK ON MY LIFE AND I'M EXTREMELY IMPRESSED I'M STILL ALIVE. - T-SHIRT — Darynda Jones

Your success and significance in life is tied to the unleashing of the greatness in you. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but the smallest thing that's not true reads on the screen. So if a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable. — Tobin Bell

Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister) — Shimon Peres

Why should things be easy to understand? — Thomas Pynchon

Demand candor from commanding officers, and weigh heavily their recommendations. — Steve Womack

Adults discourage children from asking philosophical questions, first by being patronizing to them and then by directing their inquiring minds towards more "useful" questions. Most adults aren't themselves interested in philosophical questions. They may be threatened by some of them. Moreover, it doesn't occur to most adults that there are questions that a child can ask that they can't provide a definitive answer to and that aren't answered in a standard dictionary or encyclopedia either. — Gareth B. Matthews

I'm so bored by business and money. — Oscar Isaac

The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price. — Bill Bennett

I keep a lot to myself. Thinking a million things while speaking ten things. — Mark Patterson