Permission To Mourn Quotes & Sayings

Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honor consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder. — David Graham Phillips

You gotta realize that the whole fiasco of the environment, all this global warming hocus-pocus - which the only thing it's done is made Al Gore a multi-millionaire - but, what it's done is, it has been used as a way to curtail growth, to destroy the growth, exploration. — Rafael Cruz

Only the present counts. — Georges Bernanos

The only means by which field-grade officers can expect a promotion is combat. — Oakley Hall

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools. — Major Owens

Under no circumstances should you play fast if you have a winning position. Forget the clock, use all your time and make good moves. — Pal Benko

Then I have an ivory chair high to sit upon, Almost like my father's chair, which is an ivory throne; There I sit uplift and upright, there I sit alone. — G. Norman Lippert

I'm not retired, I will continue directing films and doing fight choreography. I won't stop. — Yuen Woo-ping

I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to the big story of the world. People weren't islands, so far as I was concerned. How could they be, when their stories kept getting tangled up in everybody else's? — Charles De Lint

What you believe and focus on becomes your reality. — Michael McMillian

It wasn't until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving 'through' life without driving 'in' life. So, I've decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film.
I don't want to write anything but takes. — Julio Cortazar

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. — Seneca The Younger