Precint Quotes & Sayings

We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not. — Billy Childish

It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times. — Larry McMurtry

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem. — Allen Tate

It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms. — Charles Caleb Colton

If you want to know how important Portland is to me, there's no Saturday night gigs here. They weren't available. So our whole thing coming into Portland, which is going to be different from anybody else, any other city, is every night is Saturday night. — Garth Brooks

You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace ... Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it. — Meister Eckhart

Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups. — Clay Shirky

Your goals are YOURS. Never allow the actions of others to detract from your goals. And NEVER piggyback your wants and needs on someone else's. — Michael Dolce

He had been the pastor of Tate's church since Tate's boys were in high school
probably over ten years now. Tate thought he was a fair man with a good heart. It helped that his sermons were interesting and not fire and brimstone like the guy they'd had before him. Tate understood too well the repercussions of his sin. He went to church to hear about hope, to be encouraged. That was a thing Mitch seemed naturally born to
encouraging others. — Vannetta Chapman

In my opinion, men deny animals have feelings and thoughts for one basic reason: so they won't feel guilty about what they do to them. But — Robin Hobb

If you don't know how to grow old, don't start learning how to grow old. — Carew Papritz

Some memories made in time will last ages tossed aside. — Adhish Mazumder

All the world seemed suddenly dream, for in what waking world would a prince deceive his own people for the benefit of a slave?
~ Ayden — Rachel Haimowitz

Its not that they want her. It's just they have this feeling, and they're off, Billy, they're way off, but they have this sense that, somehow behind that knockout face of hers, she's more like the women they see on the job, on patrol, on a case, in the precint house. Women with stories as long as their rap sheets, as their dangling legs ... — Megan Abbott

When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later. — Noah Baumbach