Spollens Quotes & Sayings

The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it's fucked up for you, in the same way that we've already recognized that it's fucked up for us. I don't need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker, you know? — Fred Moten

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Do you know how hard it is for me to sit on the other side of this booth and not reach across and pull you against me? Just to make sure you really are alive?" he asked, and my breath caught at the raw honesty in his words. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future. — Daniel Schacter

Chivalry here took a final farewell. It had to yield to the heightened intensity of war, just as all fine and personal feeling has to yield when machinery gets the upper hand. The Europe of today appeared here for the first time on the field of battle. — Ernst Junger

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously. — Nicole Richie

No gift can ever replace the value of being there in person. — Denis Waitley

temperature in the storehouse seemed to have risen a notch. I guessed it was my anxiety. The air was faintly smoky, as if somebody was smoking a cigarette. Takeo smoked. I remembered his long-ago offer of a cigarette. I'd declined and bhe had never smoked in my presence after that. Was he inside and smoking as he leisurely made his way toward me? No, he wasn't the one. I knew that the danger was Eriko Iwata. I heard — Libby Fischer Hellmann

It was the cheapest kind of rebuke, to call a woman ugly, but one to which small boys and grown men seemed equally quick to stoop when feeling challenged. — Helen Simonson

People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But if you say my characters are too black and white, you've missed the point. Villains are meant to be black-hearted in popular novels. If you say I have a grey-hearted villain, then I've failed. — Ken Follett

I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy. — Mike Rowe

There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good. — Ali Vincent

There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't. — John Taylor

Smell of natural gas, piped from the big metal tank in the backyard, filled once a month by a truck. — Tom Franklin

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois. — Carla Bruni