Strident Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Riding trails with your dog restores a bond lost in some evolutionary belch. You travel at the same speed, over the same terrain, neither of you slowing to compensate for the other. You're equal playmates with mud in your teeth. — Allison Glock

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. — Ronald Reagan

Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit ridden, I let it reform. — Cyril Connolly

The page is as white as my face after a night of weeping. It is as sterile as my devastated mind. All martyrdoms are in vain. He also is drowning in the blood of too much sacrifice.
Lay aside the weapons, love, for all battles are lost. — Elizabeth Smart

As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks. — Gerry Spence

At the end of World War II, we had wage and price controls. Under wartime inflationary conditions, many employers found it difficult to recruit employees. To get around the limitations of wage control, many began to offer health care as a fringe benefit to attract workers. As a new benefit, it took some years for the Internal Revenue Service to get around to requiring the cost of the medical care to be included in the reported taxable income of the employees. By the time it did, workers had come to regard nontaxable medical care provided by the employer as a right - or should I say entitlement? They raised such a big political fuss that Congress legislated nontaxable status for employer-provided medical care. — Milton Friedman

If you care more about them than they do about you, they hate you for it. — Tana French

Maybe if we stopped trying to achieve movie standards of greatness, we'd be happy with what we have. — Amber L. Johnson

A lot of people don't believe in what they are doing. They just want the crowd to scream for them. — Roxrite

If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier. — Thomas A Kempis

The world has changed from quality to quantity, and so have we. — Santosh Kalwar

When he opened his mouth to curse them all, black water filled his lungs, and the dark closed in around him. — George R R Martin