Snappiness Quotes & Sayings

While I hate to cast aspersions on the humble army cutters, their knowledge tends toward the practical, and their approach is often... blunt. If the problem cannot be removed from the patient with a bone saw, they are often at a loss. — Django Wexler

War takes people's lives and destroys property, but it does not resolve the world's problems. If anything is achieved through war, it is to plant the seeds for the next violent conflict as the vanquished and their children will usually not accept the outcome. — Bruce Van Voorhis

A cloud can look like a camel, but a camel is unlikely to look like a cloud. This is so because the signifier must be able to stand for the whole category of the signified. The cloud looks like all camels, but no camel looks like all clouds. — Rudolf Arnheim

Being snappy is a symptom of an argument we forgot to have some way back. — Alain De Botton

Pain is inevitable, but misery is a choice, — Catherine Leggitt

Such letters ... from the FDA, are, filled with objectively demonstrable lies, practiced deceptions and deviousness, red herrings, directed misinformation, misdirected information, etc ... Once FDA-NCI-AMA-ACS ... concedes that Laetrile anti-tumor efficacy was indeed even once observed ... a permanent crack in bureaucratic armor has taken place. — Dean Burk

Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries. — Alex Stein

We'd met at university, where he was studying medicine and I was studying social awkwardness and a catastrophic inability to cope with deadlines. — Tammy Cohen

The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush. — Sidney Blumenthal

I know that I'm not my body, and I also know that you're not yours. — Janine Shepherd

Marry Prince William? I'd love that. Who wouldn't want to be a princess? — Britney Spears

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated - a system of checks and balances. — Milton Friedman

Fear leaves you sweaty and shaky and insecure enough to question everything you know to be true. — Alyson Noel

He took no interest in politics, which ruin the character and career, yet nothing can be achieved without them. — E. M. Forster

It's not exactly easy to save things for the future when the present is so uncertain. (Xander) — Ally Condie