Shana Tova Umetuka Quotes & Sayings

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. — Tonya Hurley

We called ourselves the Burfords - Reverend Burford, Grandfather Burford, Cousin Burford, and so on. — Dick Van Dyke

The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war making in the cumbersome legislature was not to disadvantage us against future enemies, but to disincline us toward war as a general matter ... With citizen-soldiers, with the certainty of a vigorous political debate over the use of a military subject to politicians' control, the idea was for us to feel it- uncomfortably- every second we were at war. But after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war that they left us ... war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops. — Rachel Maddow

Every match I go into, I'm the huge favorite. I lose a set and it's, like, crazy. — Roger Federer

I realized that you don't try on a pair of pants, fart in them, and then put them back on the shelf, and the same rough politeness applied here, too. Plain and simple, I bled on it, I bought it. — Laurie Notaro

This is because the caress is not a simple stroking; it is a shaping. — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

I better get the hearse back before dark." Xanadu sighed. "Uncle Lee got into it with Aunt Faye about me even borrowing it." Grabbing Jamie by his cougar emblem, she added, "Let's go, girlfriend." She yanked him toward the parking lot. I heard Jamie say, "Could I ride in the trunk and pretend I'm a corpse? — Julie Anne Peters

We are not cave dwellers anymore, we live in the age of technology. When someone needs a car, he does not need to build it. He can buy it. When someone needs a murder, he himself does not need to kill. He can order it. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

You've been away a long time. Were you lost?

I was wounded, not lost. — Sally Green