Ravuss Quotes & Sayings

Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation. — Kathleen Parker

I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic. — David Javerbaum

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy. — William Wilberforce

I'm pretty sure my ankle's broke. Maybe your hunky friends could carry me out. Or your one hunky friend - that skinny Ruskki doesn't look like he could lift my poodle. — J. Lincoln Fenn

[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time. — Robert Penn Warren

Go to a graduation party, put out a fish bowl, and you have a gold record. — Isaac Slade

Advice is like rain that soaks everything without being sought. — Timothy Brook

So far away, but so beautiful. So powerful. I can always feel it tugging at me. — Emery Lord

She refused to back away, but looked down at him as if he were something disgusting she had found stuck to a lavatory seat. — J.K. Rowling

Oh, it was an artful place
it must make people who have money want to spend it madly! — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

And for a little while he lay still, breathing lightly as if he expected total repose would restore everything to its normal and unquestionable state. — Franz Kafka

The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse. — Ralph Nader

The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench. — William S. Knudsen

When personal incomes are taxed 50, 60 or 70 percent. People begin to ask themselves why they should work six, eight or nine months of the entire year for the government, and only six, four or three months for themselves and their families. If they lose the whole dollar when they lose, but can keep only a fraction of it when they win, they decide that it is foolish to take risks with their capital. — Henry Hazlitt

War is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will. — Leo Tolstoy