Riddled With Deceit Quotes & Sayings

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone. — John McPhee

It's important to have fun. Survival is more than making sure we have enough food and water. — Scott Cramer

Don't let my soul be riddled / by deceit: kill it or, / like fog, it will seep through / a heap of white chaff. — Boris Pasternak

Musical myths speak with authority about our society, its fragility, its strengths, its desires, and its limits. Music becomes a wise version of the utopian messenger, pleasing us with his account of an ideal land but also warning us, in his tones, of all the dangers. — Edward Rothstein

Paranoid schizophrenia in the forties, there was only a few of us because they just invented those tags from some college somewhere and we were just a small group of people. But now there are many paranoid schizophrenias because all these these guys that are graduating from college that are readin' all these books, anything they can't understand is a paranoid schizophrenia. — Charles Manson

If someone offers to take your burden, you need to know he is serious, not just being polite and kind. Polite and kind do not last. — Amy Tan

But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times? — Terry Savage

Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would supplement all that with whatever we could kill or catch. Whether we'd kill squirrels, deer, duck, or caught catfish or brim, that was what went on the table. — Si Robertson

When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee. — Stephen King

What I know best is crying and orgasm — Mariah McKenzie

I don't like venison or sushi - I don't want to eat what some people think are 'luxurious' foods. — Courteney Cox

Why shouldn't we let him go." "I can score you some Girl Scout Cookies. You can't get Thin Mints in Poland, can you?" "Be serious." "Samoas, then?" Malina simply glared at me. "All right," I said, "what do you want?" "You have given me the impression that we'd be not only saving your life but saving the world. We need more than cookies for that." — Kevin Hearne