Straughan Thomas Quotes & Sayings

Any other, was disgusted, and attended his preaching no more. — Benjamin Franklin

You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

You just do it, then if you die, you die. — T. Scott McLeod

God, that's always the thing you have to decide with high school kids: what to make an issue of, what to let go. — Wally Lamb

Her voice was a thread, but still she managed to sound acerbic. "I believe it's the devil's job to tempt me. Not yours."
"And the difference between the devil and I would be . . . ?"
"None that I can detect. — Julie Anne Long

The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions. — Sydney J. Harris

Number one, I'd just seen my first zombies. Number two, there was no way to stop what was happening. Number three, the odds were I'd never live to see my nineteenth birthday. Life was over before I'd ever even got the chance to live it. — Rose Wynters

Poor ill' Albert, he's scared of rabbits now. — Me

I had to learn how to drive because I didn't drive in Toronto. — Kevin McDonald

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it. — Callie Khouri

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it. — Zhu Rongji

Vision gets the dreams started. — Emmitt Smith

I will speak only those things that I want to see in my life and the life of others. Whatever I speak into the lives of others will come back to me therefore I choose to be careful with what I say. — Charlene Brown

The backstage play, in which the private lives of theater people are put onstage for the world to see, is one of the diciest of dramatic genres. — Terry Teachout