Sanpei Shirato Quotes & Sayings

The truth is, the liberal policies of the elite class have done little to improve the lot of those who depend so much on them. In America's black communities, where the goodies have been flowing for decades, rather than seeing improvements in terms of upward mobility, we are seeing deteriorating family structure, increases in violent crimes, growing poverty, and growing dependence. Even with such a blatant record of failure, there is slavish devotion to the elite class who continue to promise more goodies in exchange for votes. — Benjamin Carson

Rides my demon horse, shoots a grizzly - my, my, proper Miss Elizabeth Hamilton, who'd ever have thought it? — Debra Holland

If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are. — RZA

I am not ashamed of my failures. It is only a foot-stones for building my success. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He was living in a modern world all right, but didn't always feel like he belonged here, in the first years of this new and daunting century. He thought most people felt as jittery and out of place as he did, and that all the optimistic new Edwardians you heard about were only in the papers. Looking round him at the passing people, from their faces and the way they dressed you wouldn't know the Queen was dead eight years, but then when everyone was poor they tended to look much the same from one reign or one era to another. Poverty was timeless and you could depend upon it. It was never out of fashion. — Alan Moore

The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want. — Charlie Munger

It wasn't exactly that Lula was fat. It was more that she was too short for her weight. - Stephanie Plum — Janet Evanovich

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with. — James Anthony Froude

There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us? — C.S. Lewis

Some days I feel like my worth is being reevaluated every five minutes. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I love books, I love art, I'm a fanatic nature and wildlife person. People assume I'm a political animal, power hungry, wanting to run for office. And anyone who knows me knows that none of that's true. — David Mixner

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation. — Eugene V. Debs