Sendup Quotes & Sayings

The shore was God, the stream was tradition, and the oars were the free will given to me to make it to the shore where I would be joined with God. Thus the force of life was renewed within me, and I began to live once again. — Leo Tolstoy

The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of British Special Forces, two Navy Seals, an Afghan Special Forces commando, a lawyer, two fighter pilots and at least two dozen combat veterans and counterinsurgency experts. They jokingly refer to themselves as Team America, taking the name from the South Park-esque sendup of military cluelessness, and they pride themselves on their can-do attitude and their disdain for authority. — Michael Hastings

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style. — Mitch Albom

However much a president wishes it, a national problem cannot be knocked out with a single punch. A president must work with the problem as much as against it, turn it into a solution if she can. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Try again. Fail again. Fail better. — Nicole Williams

My fear is that as we rightly celebrate, and in some quarters rediscover, all that Christ has saved us from, we are giving little thought and making little effort concerning all that Christ has saved us to. — Kevin DeYoung

Moore relished taking cops down. It wasn't a job to him - he'd received a divine calling. — John Foxjohn

Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing.
Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.
[Flanagan's motto as magazine editor for selecting content to put in Scientific American.] — Dennis Flanagan

Do you know who else is hot? My mom! My Mom's HOT!!! — Paul Heyman

I'm a terrible singer, but I'm not shy about it. I'm shy about dancing. — Ronda Rousey

There is nothing sacred, nothing uplifting, in hatred or in death. In — Elie Wiesel

It must be a good thing to die conscious of having performed some real good, and to know that by this work one will live, at least in the memory of some, and will have left a good example to those that come after. A work that is good-it may not be eternal, but the thought expressed in it is, and the work itself will certainly remain in existence for a long, long time; and if afterwards others arise, they can do no better than follow in the footsteps of such predecessors and do their work in the same way. — Vincent Van Gogh

What, at Peace with the Father, and at War with the (His) Children! It cannot be. — John Flavel

Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life. — I.M. Pei

Countless doctors have drawn little tic-tac-toe grids for my parents over the years to try to explain the genetic lottery to them. Geneticists — R.J. Palacio

It seems to me that if a man can so train himself that he may live honestly and die fearlessly, he has done about as much as is necessary. — Anthony Trollope