Tendentious Def Quotes & Sayings

I feel like I should love them right away. But how do you do that? You can't make yourself love someone, can you? — Ann Brashares

Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't. — Jonah Goldberg

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice. — Felicia Day

I fidget through class, barely paying attention to Mrs. Schumaker droning on about wagon trains and buffalo. I get it. Life on the prairie was tough. Churning your own butter? Yay for the Industrial Revolution. — Mick Bogerman

I went into the bends. I got drunker and stayed drunker than a shit skunk in Purgatory. I even had the butcher knife against my throat one night in the kitchen and then I thought, easy, old boy, your little girl might want you to take her to the zoo. Ice cream bars, chimpanzees, tigers, green and red birds, and the sun coming down on top of her head, the sun coming down and crawling into the hairs of your arms, easy, old boy. — Charles Bukowski

You don't have to lower your morals to find love because, if you do, it's not love that you're finding. — Jason Evert

What happens to us are tiny matters compare to our motivation to live through every tribulations. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I love celery and people don't use it a lot. Celery and flavors in that family - it really brightens and is refreshing. — Todd English

I glance over at Raffe for the hundredth time as I huddle with Pooky Bear beneath a coat that someone gave me. I'm shivering as if it's zero degrees, and no matter how much I hug myself, I can't get warm. I — Susan Ee

Walker covers the mouthpiece of the phone and holds it out for me. "John, uh, I have the president on the line for you."
I stare at her. "What? Seriously?"
Walker nods. "He's apparently ... um, changed his opinion on fully supporting the Loric. He wants you in Washington right away to discuss strategy."
[ ... ]
I'm about to talk to the president. I shake my head, eyeing Walker. "This isn't some kind of trick, is it?"
"No," Walker says, shaking the phone at me. "He's for real. It sounds nuts but, apparently, his older daughter just experienced some kind of ... vision? Where you gave a speech?"
Sam can't hold back the laughter. "Get out! — Pittacus Lore