Schlenker Rocking Quotes & Sayings

On your principles, you should never yield; you should be prepared to be defeated. Nobody likes to be defeated, but you should let everybody know in the most articulate and thoughtful and civil way you can (you don't go out and pick fights with people) that in certain matters that you define as matters of principle you will not budge, you cannot yield, you will not compromise. If you don't have the votes or the winning argument, then you stand to be defeated and rolled over, and you'll just have to come back another day. — Jesse Helms

I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools. — Blythe Masters

People always say to me, 'You're really attractive - in an unusual way.' No one ever just says, 'You're attractive.' — Carrot Top

Joss Whedon said to me, 'If you think you are taking over the show, you have got another think coming.' He said, 'You are here only because I don't want to kill a villain off every week. I want my villains to be more interesting and multifaceted and then die.' — James Marsters

A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content? — Azar Nafisi

Prince Charming was requesting my presence tonight. — Melissa Kantor

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear. — Benjamin Disraeli

The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme. — Billy Collins

Something inside his chest unlocked
wildly, slowly, a peculiar sort of melting. He was lost. He was the thorn and the thistle, blown upon her breeze. He felt, strangely enough, staring into her yes, like he was going to weep. — Shana Abe

But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word. — Anonymous