Restauranteur Versus Quotes & Sayings

Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be. — Frank Zappa

I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons. — Adlai Stevenson I

Some would call it tolerance, I said. Yes he replied, the same tolerance that overtook ancient Israel..a tolerance for everything opposed to God, a growing tolerance for immorality and a growing intolerance for the pure-a tolerance that mocked, marginalized and condemned those who ramined faithful to the values now being discarded. Innocence was ridiculed and virtue was vilified. Children were taught of sexual immorality in public schools while the Word of God was banned. It was a tolerance that put the profane on public display and removed nativity scenes from public sight..contraband, as if somehow they had become a threat-a strangely intolerant tolerance. "But still, I countered, how does all that compare to what happened in ancient Israel? America does'nt offer its children on altars of sacrifice? "Does it not? he said. Ten years after removing prayer and Scripture from its public schools, the nation legalized the illing of its unborn. — Jonathan Cahn

...the whole of American life was organized around the cult of the powerful individual, that phantom ideal which Europe herself had only begun to outgrow in her last phase. Those Americans who wholly failed to realize this ideal, who remained at the bottom of the social ladder, either consoled themselves with hopes for the future, or stole symbolical satisfaction by identifying themselves with some popular star, or gloated upon their American citizenship, and applauded the arrogant foreign policy of their government. — Olaf Stapledon

But I knew... I knew I was the only one who fit I that void, because it was Elizabeth that perfectly filled mine, too. — A.L. Jackson

The next time I had nothing to do, I'd have to get a book on testosterone-driven behavior. — Richelle Mead

If religion has nothing to do with poverty and misery; then why the Muslims are the largest charity takers of the world — M.F. Moonzajer

I believe if you're going to bomb someone you should know them first. It should hurt when you kill someone. — Rick Steves

Hosni Mubarak ... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free. — Naguib Mahfouz

I'd rather have Daniel Boulud have 20 restaurants than some restauranteur. It's going to make the food in our country better. — Michael Mina

There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones. — Robin Hobb

I don't think that witchcraft is a religion. I wish the military would rethink this decision. — George W. Bush