Screaming Mantis Quotes & Sayings

I think we can't be naive in dealing with the Russians or dealing with the Syrians. But at the same time, I think we could try to encourage - and I think this is what diplomacy should do - encourage the self-interests of all parties to believe that it is in their best interest to get evil actors or rogue actors such as Syria or Iran, if you try to have less belligerent and less bellicose behavior. — Rand Paul

The air about him was all wrong. The arrogance in him was the dark kind that came from the lack of an overriding conscience and having the connections to all the wrong kind of people. — J.L. Vaughan

I still get scared at night. Every tiny creak, every little noise, I open my eyes real wide and listen with them. Have you noticed that? When it's dark and you can't see a thing, you open your eyes really wide and glance back and force, like your eyes become your ears? — Ellen DeGeneres

Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks. — Robert Downey Jr.

Truth becomes a relative and disputable term in the alternate reality of partisan politics — Michael Rejebian

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity ... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican. — Carlos Fuentes

I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I do think that it is no surprise that, economically, America is in trouble. There's been a lot of trouble out there. More and more women have found themselves doing phone sex and things like that, to help pay bills, so that they could be two-income households. They can do these short-term jobs and still pick up their kids at school, at the end of the day, and drop them off in the morning. I find it fascinating. I'm not one to judge the people in that situation, nor would I really want to. — Jennifer Love Hewitt

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand. — Frederick Buechner

The depth of friendship depends on the depth of our love. — Debasish Mridha

Matters are very seldom all black or white. They can even be both at the same time - The Beer Fairy — Tom Robbins