Sadlock Quotes & Sayings

America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen. — Peter Welch

You gotta be smart enough to pick up the information as you go. — Curtis Jackson

In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real. — Gustavo Dudamel

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. — Joseph Butler

But then twitching nervously in the presence of a librarian wasn't an uncommon response - librarians, like ministers of religion, and poets, and people with serious mental health disorders, can make people nervous. Librarians possess a kind of occult power, an aura. They could silence people with just a glance. At least, they did in Israel's fantasies. In Israel's fantasies, librarians were mild-mannered superheroes, with extrasensory perceptions and a highly developed sense of responsibility who demanded respect from everyone they met. In reality, Israel couldn't silence even Mrs Onions on her mobile phone when she was disturbing other readers. — Ian Sansom

I should not be a Christian but for the miracles. — Blaise Pascal

There are no rules in love except to love. — Marty Rubin

[ ... ] it is a strange thing that most of the feeling we call religious, most of the mystical outcrying which is one of the most prized and used and desired reactions of our species, is really the understanding and the attempt to say that man is related to the whole thing, related inextricably to all reality, known and unknowable. This is a simple thing to say, but the profound feeling of it made a Jesus, a St. Augustine, a St. Francis, a Roger Bacon, a Charles Darwin, and an Einstein. Each of them in his own tempo and with his own voice discovered and reaffirmed with astonishment the knowledge that all things are one thing and that one thing is all things - plankton, a shimmering phosphorescence on the sea and the spinning planets and an expanding universe, all bound together by the elastic string of time. It is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars and then back to the tide pool again. — John Steinbeck

When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book? — Richelle E. Goodrich

We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do. — Timothy Radcliffe

She was just released from prison and forgot what a man felt like. — Bella Jeanisse

On 10 August 1914, five days after war was declared, Henry James, in a letter to a friend, expressed his revulsion at the prospect of war, and articulated the illusion that had preceded it:

'Black and hideous to me is the tragedy that gathers, and I'm sick beyond cure to have lived on to see it. You and I, the ornaments of our generation, should have been spared the wreck of our beliefs that through the long years we had seen civilization grow and the worst become impossible. — Henry James

Yelling and screaming won't really get what I want from my kids. — Adina Porter

Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past. — Neil Peart