Randal Pinkett Quotes & Sayings

Though, like Everhard, they did not dream of the nature of it, there were men, even before his time, who caught glimpses of the shadow. John C. Calhoun said: "A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks." And that great humanist, Abraham Lincoln, said, just before his assassination: "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country ... Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. — Jack London

Remember, men. it is better to wound than to slay, since it takes time to carry an injured man to the rear and sometimes requires two of the enemy rather than one. — John Jakes

A book is like a key that fits into the tumbler of the soul. The two parts have to match in order for each to unlock. Then - click - a world opens. — Brad Kessler

What you learn at university is a good discipline but has little relevance to a real job. — Chris Liddell

some call their mistake a discovery;to others, their mistake is a misfortune and to most people a mistake is a deviation from the acceptable. A mistake is a mistake depending on what we think it is. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me. — William Blake

It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver. — E.L. Konigsburg

Julius Caesar's wife, who said to Julius, We are not naming our son Sid! Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

My mediocrity is no secret;
My battles with it are — Karan Patade

Blessed is the mind that jumps over and beyond its own conditioning and lands again into its natural state of unmoving awareness. — Mooji

Her laptop. That's where the good stuff would be anyway. It always was. Even at my old school, kids had always been frantic when they'd lost their laptops, thinking about all the incriminating stuff that someone might find on them. Like e-mails about how drunk the kids had gotten with their friends the weekend their parents thought they went to band camp. Papers they'd downloaded and plagiarized for AP English. Porn. — Jennifer Estep

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. — Jimmy Cannon

In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One. — Os Guinness

He wasn't sure who moved first, her or him. There was the thunk of her bag sliding down her arm to hit the floor, followed by the muted clank of her keys a split-second later, then he was pulling her into his arms and she was lifting her face to kiss him.
She tasted of salt and fresh air and life and he spread his hands across the small of her back and pulled her closer, need an urgent tattoo drumming through his blood. She felt so good, so strong and supple, and they fit together perfectly. — Sarah Mayberry

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater. — William E. Simon