Pitchess Detention Quotes & Sayings

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room. — Blaise Pascal

Racism is not about hurtful words, bruised feelings, political correctness, or refusing to call short people 'vertically challenged.' Racism is about the power to treat entire groups of people as something less than human - for the benefit of that power. That's why a Native American sports mascot is far from harmless. — Dave Zirin

Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful. — Seth Godin

He who recollects a thing by which he was once pleased desires to possess it in the same circumstances as when he first was pleased by it. He who was never pleased is doomed to an eternal hard-on. — Aleksandar Hemon

I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally. — Zig Ziglar

It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media. — Chuck Klosterman

Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?' — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I played the guitar in ninth grade. My sister's friend went on a semester abroad, and she left the guitar at our house for nine months. — David Walton

The great contest for the presidency is about the future, who can lead, who can get things done. — George W. Bush

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life. — Jack Henry Abbott