Stanier Black Quotes & Sayings

The officer asks me if I want to press charges against Trent and I glare at him like he's grown an arm out of his ass. — K.A. Tucker

His brothers could tease him about his height or the number of scars he was collecting on his body. He could take the joke when they said he would die having never won a fair wrestling match. But the topic of Bettin still smarted too much. He'd imagined being with her always. Now when he closed his eyes, he had trouble imagining anything else. — Shannon Hale

This is Golgotha: people tend to end up dead in these here parts; it's kind of a town tradition. — R.S. Belcher

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time. — Terry Pratchett

The people who have adored me
there have not been very many, but there have been some
have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me. — Oscar Wilde

Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander to their own prejudices and preconceptions, which they are so rarely competent to look in the face. — Kenny Smith

Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It's ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices. — Chetan Bhagat

I'm not suggesting anything. People get hurt every day. This matter must be cleared up, Joseph, for everybody. The greatest good of the greatest number, as you are so fond of quoting. — Robert A. Heinlein

The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack. — C.S. Lewis

I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now. — Nick Harkaway

The greatest goal is to be a God-carrier in your sphere of life — Sunday Adelaja

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men — Virgil

Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy. — Chuck D

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. — Gustave Flaubert