Orienting Material Quotes & Sayings

Dick Cheney and Al Gore have redefined the role of the vice president in the minds of the public. It should be a big job, beyond simply checking the health status of the president. — Chuck Todd

Do you find your identity in who you are or whose you are? — Mark Batterson

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side. — Robert Greene

Joke:
What was the octopus's favorite game at the beach BBQ?
Tidal Pool Twister — Heather Wolf

The press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller than they really are. — Marguerite Yourcenar

It was in its strangeness and in its familiarity an illustration of someone else's life going on in its own way, steeped in itself, its own business, its own dailyness, its own particular sorrow or joy, all of it more or less predictable — Alice McDermott

There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal. — Abraham Lincoln

I've already got the Kingdom of Heaven in my heart! That's my nationality, my citizenship, my Country!-A Country that's never persecuted the poor or oppressed the weak or destroyed small peoples of the World like America has. It's a Country that's never lost a battle and never fought a war for the wrong reason. — David Berg

You any good with that SIG?" Matt asked. Parker's voice held a trace of amusement. "Not bad. — Toni Anderson

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once - there has to be a limit — Edward W. Said

For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved. — Cyprian