Ratbert Quotes & Sayings

I can be humbler than anyone. — George R R Martin

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. — Marlon Brando

How can you do that?" I whisper.
"Do what?"
"Just say things- say how you feel."
He shrugs. "I don't know. I guess I figure I'm going to regret it either way. Might as well."
"That is the saddest thing I've ever heard."
He laughs softly in my hair. "Maybe. But its better than not being able to say it at all. — Brenna Yovanoff

We want to feel that our world is intelligible, so we can be responsible for — Matthew B. Crawford

The Book of Mormon was written for us today. God is the author of the book. It is a record of a fallen people, compiled by inspired men for our blessing today. Those people never had the book. It was meant for us. — Ezra Taft Benson

My first thought about acting, growing up here in New York, was theater, and I feel like I need to force myself to go get my ass kicked in a rehearsal room and do one of those plays at some point. — Paul Dano

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities — Mark Twain

God's sign is simplicity. God's sign is the baby. God's sign is that He makes Himself small for us. This is how He reigns. He does not come with power and outward splendor. He comes as a baby - defenseless and in need of our help. He does not want to overwhelm us with His strength. He takes away our fear of His greatness ... God made Himself small so that we could understand Him, welcome Him, and love Him. — Pope Benedict XVI

Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of my mind at times. Wouldn't God understand that I just want to be with him? — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Ratbert (as lab rat, to scientist): Doc, we have to talk. Every day you feed me over a hundred pounds of macaroni and cheese. At first I thought you were just being a good host. But lately I've been thinking it could be something far more sinister. — Scott Adams

The price of success is the risk of self-esteem. — Jim Ruta

[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners. — Rudolph Rummel