Rubbish Works Quotes & Sayings

The idea that God works in mysterious ways is rubbish. There's nothing mysterious about his ways. They're premeditated and slightly conniving, and they place you in an impossible situation. — Melina Marchetta

One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits. — Barbara Jordan

Confidence makes you willing to try harder and attracts the kind of support from others that makes "winning" possible. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Last month I was banging on about how books were better than anything - -how just about any decent book you picked would beat up anything else, any film or painting or piece of music, you cared to match it up with. Anyway, like most theories advanced in this column, it turned out to be utter rubbish. I went to a couple of terrific exhibitions at the Royal Academy (and that's a hole in my argument right there - one book might beat up one painting, but what chance has one book, or even four books, got against the collected works of Guston and Vuillard?) ... — Nick Hornby

I didn't go up there to die. I went up there to live. — Reinhold Messner

And the night smells like snow. Walking home for a moment you almost believe you could start again. And an intense love rushes to your heart, and hope. It's unendurable, unendurable — Franz Wright

Can I truly discover how to integrate myself in the Force if I do not know who I am without it?"
- Jacen Solo — Michael A. Stackpole

Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke. — Saul Bellow

In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only intensified by the lusting for an upstart savior. — James Wolcott

I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop! — Edan Lepucki

As a ghost hunter, I can honestly say it's the living that truly scare me. — L'Aura Hladik

I am not anti-west, I am PRO PAKISTAN — Imran Khan

A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ. — Jonathan Edwards

If there is a trait which does characterize leaders it is opportunism. Successful people are very often those who steadfastly refuse to be daunted by disadvantage and have the ability to turn disadvantage to good effect. They are people who seize opportunity and take risks. Leadership then seems to be a matter of personality and character. — John Viney

Now GE has connections with Siemens over here, they worked on the V-2 guidance, — Thomas Pynchon

I tell you that I'm not dictatorial, I'm not intolerant, I'm not overpowering! You're all wrong, wrong, wrong, I tell you! I'm the most relaxed and understanding of people! None of you, I insist, must ever say I'm dictatorial again! — Neville Chamberlain

Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding. — Paulo Coelho