Runaway Jury Book Quotes & Sayings

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future. — Winston Churchill

It's important to remember when you start doing things like attacking hospitals through the internet, when you start attacking things like internet exchange points, when something goes wrong, people can die. If a hospital's infrastructure is affected, lifesaving equipment turns off. — Edward Snowden

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind. — Louis Zamperini

I have even learned to respond to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach for the tissues, until I realized that passing a person a tissue may be just another way to shut them down, to take them out of their experience of sadness and grief. Now I just listen. When they have cried all they need to cry, they find me there with them. — Rachel Naomi Remen

The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers. — Keith Preston

The blessing of the omnivore is that he can eat a great many different things in nature. The curse of the omnivore is that when it comes to figuring out which of those things are safe to eat, he's pretty much on his own. — Michael Pollan

I got the idea in my head - and I could not get it out - that college was just one more dopey, inane place in the world dedicated to piling up treasure on earth and everything. I mean treasure is treasure, for heaven's sake. What's the difference whether the treasure is money, or property, or even culture, or even just plain knowledge? I think that knowledge - when it's knowledge for knowledge's sake, anyway - is the worst of all. The least excusable certainly. I don't think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while - just once in a while - there was some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! — J.D. Salinger

Only for practical reasons. To find out if I said something stupid in an interview. So I can limit the damage. — Robert Pattinson

Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you. — Chuck Palahniuk

The central banks cannot control interest rates. That's a mistake. They can control a particular rate, such as the Federal Funds rate, if they want to, but they can't control interest rates. — Milton Friedman

Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government — John Prescott

I assume that if God is anything like Jesus, then living in fear is a waste of time. — Tripp Fuller

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening. — Soren Kierkegaard

If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment. — Dave Allen