Slashing Tires Quotes & Sayings

My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African workers; number two, that the roads don't just lead from the mine to the port to Shanghai — Barack Obama

We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way. — Jim Jarmusch

"He passed over his fall, and appointed him first of the Apostles; wherefore He said: ' 'Simon, Simon,' etc. (in Ps. cxxix. 2). God allowed him to fall, because He meant to make him ruler over the whole world, that, remembering his own fall, he might forgive those who should slip in the future. And that what I have said is no guess, listen to Christ Himself saying: 'Simon, Simon, etc.'" — Saint John Chrysostom

What the Hell is a meteor hammer?" "Big heavy steel ball on the end of a long chain." "Huh. Have you ever used it on a person?" Ember got very interested in her beverage. "Oh, no, Officer Miranda. No matter what my cheating skag of an ex-boyfriend says about the hail damage to his truck, I've never used it on anyone or anything that wasn't a legitimate practice target at my sifu's school." Ember — Bryan Fields

Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down? — Nathaniel Hawthorne

He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence of love would come to feel.
"Just watch me," he said. — Michael Chabon

This is exactly how Satan works, not through what seems grotesque and repulsive, but through what seduces us. — Michael Schiefelbein

It's June and the city is ripe with meaningless fecal heat. It will be a different kind of hot in LA, the kind that made the Beach Boys all tan and giddy, a heat that doesn't harass you in the shade. — Caroline Kepnes

Compassion becomes an automatic reaction when you see all of humanity as one undivided and indivisible family. — Wayne Dyer

The drink was like water, indeed very like the taste of the draughts they had drunk from the Entwash near the borders of the forest, and yet there was some scent or savour in it which they could not describe: it was faint, but it reminded them of the smell of a distant wood borne from afar by a cool breeze at night. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man. — Gregory Maguire

If not for tragedy, tyrants, and injustice, there would be nothing to awaken and inspire dormant heroes. There is always a balance. Always. — Steve Maraboli

If I'm dying from anything, it's from indifference and red tape. — Vito Russo

Lighting one candle
from another -
Winter night — Yosa Buson