Sticky Wicky Quotes & Sayings

For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War ended, we suddenly discovered that Russia was a poor Third World country. They had not been equipped to take over the world. In fact, they were just trying to improve a miserable standard of oppressive living, and couldn't. They had to spend too much on arms build-up. We didn't win the Cold War; we bankrupted the Russians. In effect, it was a big bank exhausting the reserves of a smaller one. — Norman Mailer

In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The burdens of childhood are as hard to bear as the crosses that weigh us down later in life, while the happinesses of childhood are tame compared with those of our maturer years. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Get it out of your historic head. — Imogen Cunningham

See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldn't screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good. — Kim Harrison

...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly. — George Orwell

In my white room, against my white walls, on my glistening white bookshelves, book spines provide the only color. The books are all brand-new hardcovers - no germy secondhand softcovers for me. They come to me from Outside, decontaminated and vacuum-sealed in plastic wrap. I — Nicola Yoon

I go with the flow but I write against it. — Tamara Jasmine Burrell

The faster the commit suite is, the more often you can run it. — Anonymous