The Mechanic 1972 Quotes & Sayings

I've always assumed he'd be around to be, you know, yelled at and taken for granted. And of course I was wrong. Nobody's going to put up with that forever. — MaryJanice Davidson

When you don't know what you can have, you do okay with what you've got. — J.D. Robb

I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice. — Burton Cummings

Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei [preambles of faith], and then complaining when they don't accept it, is like yelling in English at someone who only speaks Chinese, and then dismissing him as a fool when he doesn't understand you. In both cases, while there is certainly a fool in the picture, it isn't the listener. — Edward Feser

When a couple has a strong preference for a baby boy or girl, who is injured by allowing them to choose? Certainly not the child. — Gregory Stock

Do not show the face of Islam to others; instead show your face as the follower of true Islam representing character, knowledge, tolerance and piety — Syed Ahmad Khan

Subtle horror is where you rarely see the blood and gore. The violent people are called splatter-punks, who prefer graphic, unrelenting, violent, fast-paced horror. I prefer horror stories with mysterious elements that are chock-full of suspense. — Richard Chizmar

Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are goneLike twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne. — Francis Quarles

The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak. — Robert A. Heinlein

What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker. — Elbert Hubbard

And that's when I knew she was not doing this on purpose; that her stories came from a place deep within her, beyond thought and formal language. — Clara Chow

[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy. — Jared Diamond