Propulsive Gait Quotes & Sayings

Someone's looking for a short sharp visit from the Slap Fairy, said Melody. — Simon R. Green

The words came from him like a sob, a hoarse sound like the death rattle of a dying man; it seemed indeed like the agony of death when the father's love was powerless. — Honore De Balzac

We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately released on the front pages of newspapers. — Nancy Gibbs

Born a slave, Harriet Tubman was determined not to remain one. She escaped from her owners in Maryland on the Underground Railroad in 1849 and then fearlessly returned thirteen times to help guide family members and others to freedom as the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad. — Susan Campbell Bartoletti

I raise money the old fashioned way, I go out and tell people what I think. And I say to them, "If you hire me, I'm a CEO, and I'll listen to you. But at the end of the day, I'm going to make the decision, something I've done throughout my whole career with, frankly, great success." — Rick Santorum

when Winky has been very drunk. He has hidden her in the Room of Requirement and he has found antidotes to butterbeer there, — J.K. Rowling

Surely it is the one who fears he is wrong who avoids criticism. The one who is sure he is right invites it. It only illuminates the strength of beliefs and makes them more available to others. — David L. Wolfe

Remember ... People can always threaten your very life but they can never take away your dreams. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Sport has given me drive and discipline. It also taught me to remain humble. — Charlene, Princess Of Monaco

In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature ... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude; Daguerre was his messiah. — Charles Baudelaire

It was an interesting dilemma and pointed up a real point of difference between Nazism and Communism as forms of government: there was no room for the individual in Soviet Russia; conversely not everything was state-managed in Germany. The Nazis never shot anyone for being stupid, inefficient or just plain unlucky. Generally speaking the Nazis looked for a reason to shoot you, the commies were quite happy to shoot you without any reason at all - but when you're going to be shot, what's the difference? — Philip Kerr

Father has a fear of flying since that aeroplane crashed into his bedroom. — Jonathan Dunne

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world. — Paul Wolfowitz