Striplin Quotes & Sayings

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever. — Thucydides

I don't think anybody has ever been able to live up to what they promised. I don't know a government that has ever been successful at that because once they get into power, things change and the world is controlled also by business now. — Hugh Masekela

Now, 'Dasher!' now, 'Dancer!' now, 'Prancer' and 'Vixen!'
On, 'Comet!' on, 'Cupid!' on, 'Donner' and 'Blitzen!' — Clement Clarke Moore

God says that despite knowing that sin makes you impure before him, and that to cleanse you he would have to sacrifice his Son, and to equip you he would have to provide his Spirit, nonetheless it gives him pleasure to reveal to you the mystery of Jesus. When there was no goodness or ability in us, God loved us and enabled us to know his love. This too is a precious mystery that even a child can know. — Bryan Chapell

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her. — Gillian Flynn

I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I want to play. — Jim Parsons

A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England — Tony Greig

A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and, to a lesser extent show business, were the only fields open to Negroes, and when the ring was the only place a Negro could whip a white man and not be lynched. — Malcolm X

I'm so optimistic, it's depressing. — Lindsay Wagner

How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues? Take him to a library." - Albus Severus Potter — J.K. Rowling

The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture. — Ellen Willis

Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. — Bodie Thoene

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. — Frank Dane

People admire my confidence, but they never see me when I'm alone. That's when I'm the most raw because I'm not trying to sell myself to anybody. — J. Merridew