Reattaching Rear Quotes & Sayings

To begin with a summary of Paine's astonishing life and career is to commence with a sense of wonder that he was ever able to emerge at all. — Christopher Hitchens

Wahoo's father had absolutely no use for creeps who beat on small animals, especially kids. — Carl Hiaasen

The thought of eating rabbit and squirrels doesn't appeal to me. And that was on our table quite often as a kid. In your uppity restaurants, they serve a lot of rabbit. But I just can't help but think of Peter. And deer, I can't go there, because of Bambi. — Paula Deen

The type of journalism that relies on the reporter's notion of what does or doesn't "seem" correct or controversial is self-indulgent and irresponsible. It gives credence to the belief that we can intuit our way through all the various decisions we need to make in our lives and it validates the notion that our feelings are a more reliable barometer of reality than the facts. — Seth Mnookin

All that follow their noses are led by their eyes but blind men; and there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking. — William Shakespeare

If people don't sleep with me I just rape them. Because right is not given but taken. — M.F. Moonzajer

To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated. — LL Cool J

Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life. — Wassily Kandinsky

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence. — Alice Walker

Being a pioneer can be damn lonely, too early, no money, tough, endless, stupid," Samwer said. "And that healed us. Since then, we basically say, Fuck you. We don't care whether you think we are not smart enough to invent something. — Frank Sennett

This is what he has always wanted, or so he had thought, but now here he is, in the middle of a story of his own and looking for the exit, and realizing all the exits are blocked and then realizing that an exit is not what he needs. — Charles Yu

There are many dangerous serpents in India-the cobra, the boa, the python, water snakes, vipers, king cobras, and even some that fly."
That didn't sound good at all. "What do you mean fly?"
"Well, technically, they don't really fly. They just glide to other trees, like the flying squirrel."
I sank lower in my seat and frowned. "What an exceptional variety of poisonous reptiles you have here. — Colleen Houck

There is a temptation to rehearse this observation - that jihadists are modern secular people, with modern political concerns, wearing medieval religious disguise - and make it fit the Islamic State. In fact, much of what the group does looks nonsensical except in light of a sincere, carefully considered commitment to returning civilization to a seventh-century legal environment, and ultimately to bringing about the apocalypse. — Anonymous

Doing the right thing is easy. [It is] much more difficult [to ... ] figure out what [the right thing] is. — Harry S. Truman