Rhoades Quotes & Sayings

I don't know if I can shoot a man."
The old woman cackled. "Can't shoot 'em, but you can wallop 'em to death with a poker."
Elizabeth blanched. "That was before I knew they were men."
"Man, beast, don't matter. Something aims to kill you, your kin, your friends, you kill it first. You weren't carrying that poker to protect yourself against no wolf. — Jacqueline Rhoades

Why do we assume that educating a criminal is merely helping him commit more sophisticated crimes? Why can't we assume that an education can give this person the tools to make more acceptable choices? — Laura Bates

I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports. — Conor McGregor

I love mysteries. To fall into a mystery and its danger ... everything becomes so intense in those moments. When most mysteries are solved, I feel tremendously let down. So I want things to feel solved up to a point, but there's got to be a certain percentage left over to keep the dream going. It's like at the end of Chinatown: The guy says, 'Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.' You understand it, but you don't understand it, and it keeps that mystery alive. That's the most beautiful thing. — David Lynch

If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history. — Justina Chen

That's what brave is, you know. Doing what needs to be done when you're scared shitless. — Jacqueline Rhoades

You can pay a mercenary to fight, you can't pay him to die. — J.D. Rhoades

and PWD was soon on the air again. Beyond the perimeter, Snowy Rhoades took charge of mopping up the scattered Japanese. Learning that a small party was hiding up a river near the southeast coast, he loaded a barge with eighteen U.S. infantry and ten armed natives and went after them. They — Walter Lord

I want to embrace all of this: touring, going to Europe, Canada, Australia. I want to travel the world, just have a great hang, and hopefully, be a messenger. — Meredith Brooks

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character. — John Lydon

The APR provides a real-time snapshot of what is happening with our individual student-athletes today. However, it does not address some of the realities that exist in sports played during the spring semester, where student-athletes accept professional opportunities before graduating or before exhausting their eligibility. — DeLoss Dodds

I sometimes worried that the more instinctive forms of love were not so available to you. That easy maternal devotion, for instance, that seemed so natural in some women, and which, as we spoke of from time to time, was something you had to struggle to feel. [p. 189] — Sue Miller

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Are you saying the end of human suffering began with an amusement park?"
"I'm saying the end of human suffering is a myth."
"But everyone's happy."
"You think that just because a person doesn't question the way the system works that means they agree with it? And if they do agree that must mean they're happy? Are you happy? — T.S. Welti

Relationship with God is not immune to the surprises and costs of our daily life. — Walter Brueggemann

For all of us, the time is short and the span of life is brief On top of that, our real human problem, the Stoic philosopher Seneca said in a direct rebuke to the modern illusion, is not just that life is short but that we waste so much of it-so that life ceases for us "just when we are getting ready for it."35
But — Os Guinness

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure. — Felix Bloch