Right Wingers Defending Quotes & Sayings

Put your mind where your body is. One day at a time forces you to reckon with the instant you actually occupy, rather than living in fantasy la-la that never comes. — Mary Karr

O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare

Will someone please tell me why you all call me 'Sparky'?" she burst out in frustration. "And if I get stabbed one more time tonight I'm going to lose it!" she added, rounding on Jason, who was sneaking up behind her holding a stapler. — Josephine Angelini

The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge. — Thomas Mann

Macro worries are like sports talk radio. Everyone has a good opinion which probably means that none of them are good. — Seth Klarman

Concerned consumers are realizing that they can use social media to organize themselves around shared values to start effective movements. Social media gives them a sounding board to share ideas, as well as a means to punish irresponsible corporate behaviors. — Simon Mainwaring

The neighborhood was at the friction point between sleazy and respectable. — James S.A. Corey

Lie down and offer your throat. No, wait, that's how dogs submit. I know! Offer her you're wallet! Oberon — Kevin Hearne

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion. — Richard E. Byrd

I tell you the truth: if I lived in a country where there was no day appointed for elections, I would become a revolutionary, if not a terrorist. And that is because I love liberty too much; without liberty a man is not a man. He has no dignity. — Silvio Berlusconi

As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th. — Bo Jackson

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault. — Orson Scott Card

Everything in the universe is older than it seems. Blame Einstein for that. We see what a thing was when the light left it, and that was long ago. Nothing in the night sky is contemporary, not to us, not to one another. Ancient stars exploded into ruin before their sparkle ever caught our eyes; those glimpsed in glowing "nurseries" were crones before we witnessed their birth. Everything we marvel at is already gone.
Yet, light rays go out forever, so that everything grown old and decayed retains somewhere the appearance of its youth. The universe is full of ghosts.
But images are light, and light is energy, and energy is matter; and matter is real. So image and reality are the same thing, after all. Blame Einstein for that, as well. — Michael Flynn

Just her and the pink switchblade. They were a good pair. Both incapable of opening up without cutting someone. — Maggie Stiefvater

Television is populated with commitment-phobes. — Rob Lowe