Sanctioned Crossword Quotes & Sayings

If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, I'd have been shooting them all my life. — Amor Towles

I don't want to be dying. I want to be dead. — Girl234

America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait ... America is what it is because people came from someplace else. — Isabel Wilkerson

We're all competitors, you know? The player wants to get a hit. The manager wants to win. I want to get it right. To tell you the truth, I just love that competition. — Bruce Froemming

The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path. — Anthony Lewis

The Coward will run away from danger, only to strike in the dark. The Heroine will run through the dark, even though she knows the coward is waiting to strike. — David A. Cleinman

Any system, biological, economic, or social, that gets so encrusted that it cannot self-evolve, a system that systematically scorns experimentation and wipes out the raw material of innovation, is doomed over the long term on this highly variable planet. — Donella Meadows

I was taking my dog out the other day and I met this chap who asked me where I was going. The dog is foaming at the mouth, so I explained that I was on my way to the vet to have it put down. He asked if it was mad, to which I replied that it wasn't exactly pleased about it. — Chic Murray

If people don't want to believe in Robbie Fowler, it's because they don't want to — Kevin Keegan

I have mentored two young aspiring actors and I wish that I had known I could look for a mentor because it would have been a lot easier to be able to ask those questions to someone who had gone through it already. — Erica Schroeder

If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it. — Sarah Manguso

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives? — Jorge Luis Borges

Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public. — Michael Eric Dyson

And do you know, I came with horror to the conclusion that, if anything could dissipate my love for humanity, it would be ingratitude. In short, I am a hired servant, I expect my payment at once--that is, praise, and the repayment of love with love. Otherwise I am incapable of loving anyone. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Julia did very well,' said Selena, 'not to fall into the lagoon. How beastly of that woman to suggest she'd had too much to drink.'
'Most uncharitable,' said Ragwort. 'Julia, as we all know, needs no assistance from alcohol to make her trip over things. — Sarah Caudwell