Ryckman Creek Quotes & Sayings

Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice. — Julian Baggini

But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer. — Curt Flood

When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarlet. "Don't you hate me?" he demanded. "I'd hate me."
"You just tried to drown yourself," Ash said. "You seem to hate yourself plenty already. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want. — Carol Ann Duffy

Trying to walk around in shoes that were custom made for someone else is a lot like trying to live a life that God custom designed for someone else. It may look pretty on the outside for a little while, but all it will bring is frustration, misery, and pain. — Kathi Lipp

One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over. — Milton Friedman

I think the basis - the foundation - has already been laid for a society where people will work together and enjoy the wealth of the whole nation together. I think this will be accomplished because this is the theme of the revolutionary government's program. — Huey Newton

Was there something distinctive about American civil society that gave democracy a better chance than in France, as Tocqueville argued? Was the already centralized French state more likely to produce a Napoleon than the decentralized United States? We cannot be sure. But it is not unreasonable to ask how long the US constitution would have lasted if the United States had suffered the same military and economic strains that swept away the French constitution of 1791 — Niall Ferguson

Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors ... — Spencer W. Kimball

O Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy;
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

- The Sick Rose — William Blake

I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do. — Daniel Cudmore

A samurai must remain calm at all times even in the face of danger. — Chris Bradford

Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution ... The terrorists are not anything like the threat we face from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism ... The American constitutional system is near to being overthrown — Paul Craig Roberts