Struan Rodger Quotes & Sayings

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators. — Joe Bob Briggs

Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. — Robert A. Heinlein

the trees were putting on their September garments, brown and red and yellow, — Jeff VanderMeer

No one plants rosebushes for the thorns. — Marty Rubin

Gay people can't be proud of the country and want to defend it too. What's the army afraid is going to happen if gay people are in it. Private, shoot that man! I can't, he's adorable. — Jon Stewart

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health. — Avicenna

There is not a place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere of the inner life. Any attempt to escape from the world must sooner or later be paid for with a sinful surrender to the world. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200! — Dirk Benedict

I sent in tons of submissions and proposals, and I collected my share of form rejection letters. Eventually, I found myself working at a comic book shop, where I met my future collaborator Brian Hurtt. — Cullen Bunn

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down. — Katherine Boo

[...] I went back to arguing with my husband and he didn't know about my face-stabbing thoughts and it made me even angrier that he didn't know about my face-stabbing thoughts, that he couldn't just intuit these things, look into my eyes and know that the way he spoke to me was a plain waste of our life [...] — Catherine Lacey

We brought death to our enemies, and I loved the power of it. And that final love, one I shared with my father, frightened me more than any battle ever could. — Patricia Briggs

We must not allow ourselves to be the prisoners of our societal conformity. — Debasish Mridha

Is the universe 'elegant,' as Brian Greene tells us? Not as far as I can tell, not the usual laws of particle physics, anyway. I think I might find the universal principles of String Theory most elegant - if I only knew what they were. — Leonard Susskind