Shickelgrubber Quotes & Sayings

The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient. — Edward Abbey

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly. — Iris Chang

Live with passion. Live with purpose. — Jeffrey R. Immelt

The way I represent my individuality is by mixing classic pieces - like sports jackets - with little, unexpected additions. — Cam Newton

I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-"
"It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule. — Shannon Hale

An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap-best of all. But God himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, King, husband-that is quite another matter. — C.S. Lewis

The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable. — John Perry Barlow

Science does not know its debt to imagination. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The French are completely without scruples, energy or valor - the Great War castrated them and left them diminished, whiney, mistaking bickering for debate and shrillness for eloquence, they are a nation in such effete decline that Shickelgrubber, when he finally attacks them, might be dancing with the keys to Paris in his hand after a week or two of puny skirmishing. — Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them. — Salman Rushdie

Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind. — Jonathan Sacks