Savagely Fierce Quotes & Sayings

We can't bankrupt Exxon. But we can politically and morally bankrupt them. — Bill McKibben

The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well. — Matthew Thomas

Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren't either, it's a bond that fascinates and mystifies. So much of the world's favorite music comes out of that relationship. — Rob Sheffield

The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far. — Daniel Ellsberg

Comparing the humped herds of whales with the humped herds of buffalo, which, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes — Herman Melville

The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry by a relatively tiny oligarchy of extremely clever financial criminals and their castrato henchmen in government, whose job is to be good actors on TV and put on a good show. — Matt Taibbi

And I love what I do and I love skating. — Nancy Kerrigan

San Francisco is one of my favorite cities in the world. — Rosalynn Carter

Use your good common sense. Is anger useful? If you get angry at someone, the result is good neither for you nor for the other person. Nothing helpful comes of it. In the end, anger does not harm others; it hurts yourself. — Dalai Lama XIV

From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire of Nature and a determination of the applicability of every species of knowledge to the improvement of his art. — John Gorrie

That was how we wanted to play, majestic and chaotic. — Anthony Kiedis

Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it. No doubt the teacher is the worst criminal, but the world stands behind him and drags the student from his course. — Henry Adams

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved. — Antonya Nelson

To be a success, intensely focus on success oriented action not on roadblocks or obstacles. — Debasish Mridha