Racketeer Quotes & Sayings

I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. — Smedley Butler

A company of wolves, is better than a company of wolves in sheep's clothing. — Anthony Liccione

Women are extraordinary creatures! — Roman Payne

And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness. — Albert Camus

Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate. — Ari Fleischer

There is no organised encounter group. There is simply a freedom of expression - of feelings and thoughts - on any personally relevant issue. — Carl R. Rogers

It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. — Cass McCombs

Confronting information that directly challenges existing beliefs can be psychologically threatening to people, especially if the information challenges their sense of identity. — Rachel Hilary Brown

Nothing bonds people more than going through sh_t together, right? — Daria Snadowsky

I have a plan, one I've been plotting for years now. It is my only way out. — John Grisham

There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life. — Sean Astin

Knowledge creates fear of God — Imam Ali

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free. — George McGovern

The female heart is a labyrinth of subtleties, too challenging for the uncouth mind of the male racketeer. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Just calling one's practice "approach and accomplishment" and staying in retreat for years will produce nothing but hardship. Completing hundreds of millions of mantras will not even bring the warmth of the ordinary qualities that mark one's progress on the path! In other words, if the essential points of the path are not taken into account, perseverance will amount to nothing more than chasing a mirage. — Patrul Rinpoche

The struggle doesn't last long; it's too unequal. Their momentary surprise overcome, they close in on him. The well-directed slice of a gun-butt slackens the good arm; it's easy to pry the disabled one from around the racketeer's collar.
Tereshko is trembling with his anger. 'Now him again!' he protests, as though at an injustice. 'All they do is die and then get up and walk around again! What'sa matter, you guys using spitballs for slugs? No, don't kick at him, that'll never do it - I think the guy has nine lives!' ("Jane Brown's Body") — Cornell Woolrich

Some people in this life really enjoy being sent up and Nicholas Parsons is one of them because he's a sadomasochist. — Derek Nimmo

We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who'll never be impressed. — Sophie Kinsella

The Left has failed to understand the extent to which its intolerant, often coercive, approach to issues that permit good-willed disagreement has turned off voters who might otherwise be sympathetic to their general program. — Ian Tuttle

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life. — Walter Kaufmann

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth. — George Holyoake