Scaglione Brothers Quotes & Sayings

I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes. — Steve Earle

Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector. — Mahatma Gandhi

Many political scientists used to assume that people vote selfishly, choosing the candidate or policy that will benefit them the most. But decades of research on public opinion have led to the conclusion that self-interest is a weak predictor of policy preferences. Parents of children in public school are not more supportive of government aid to schools than other citizens; young men subject to the draft are not more opposed to military escalation than men too old to be drafted; and people who lack health insurance are not more likely to support government-issued health insurance than people covered by insurance.35 Rather, people care about their groups, whether those be racial, regional, religious, or political. The political scientist Don Kinder summarizes the findings like this: "In matters of public opinion, citizens seem to be asking themselves not 'What's in it for me?' but rather 'What's in it for my group?' "36 Political opinions function as "badges of social membership."37 — Jonathan Haidt

I will do whatever I have to do to reach people with the things I believe are important. Life is too short not to do everything you can. — Jeanette Winterson

And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff. — Keith David

But God will surely punish her, Mma, then had decided that this was not the sort of thing that people said any more, even if it was what they were thinking. The trouble was, she thought, that God had so many people to punish these days that he might just not find the time to get round to dealing with Violet Sephotho. It was a disappointing thought - a lost opportunity, in a sense: she would very willingly have volunteered her services to assist in divine punishment, perhaps through something she would call Mma Makutsi's League of Justice that would, strictly but fairly, punish people like Violet. — Alexander McCall Smith

And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia. — James Stockdale

Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway. — Peter Tork

A person's fruit is more important than having the gifts of the Holy Spirit. — Sunday Adelaja

It was one thing to talk about ghosts, quite another to have them messing around with things in the physical world. — Hunter Shea

Anger makes people stupid. — William Kennedy

In The Science of Getting Rich, W. D. Wattles wrote that we must always give more in service to our customers and to those around us than we are getting in return. — Earl Nightingale

Yes, Consul. The next time one of our esteemed members turns into a worm and eats another esteemed member, we will inform you immediately. — Cassandra Clare