Tradecraft Coffee Quotes & Sayings

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween. — Erma Bombeck

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe. — Phyllis McGinley

I can't protect you from the stars, but I can tell you stories that may help at night when they are staring at you. — Karen Hines

At the end of his life, Stalin was at the pinnacle of his power. His authority was unassailable and not under threat from any source. But he did not feel that way. Like other dictators, he never stopped fighting for power and never quite trusted his subjects. The methods he used in his never-ending battle for power were universal and simple. They included the elimination of any potential threat from within his inner circle, unrelenting oversight of the secret police, the encouragement of competition and mutual control among the various components of government, and the mobilization of society against perceived enemies both internal and external. — Oleg V. Khlevniuk

The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed. — Doris Lessing

When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms. — Al Franken

I learned through apprenticeship. I was an assistant to a defensive coach, and I'm still learning. — Brendan Daly

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. — Henry Rollins

Hate is never a far cry from love ... Sometimes I stumble the lines drunken.. Hollering your name.. — Shanica Stewart

Sit down and rest your sex appeal. — Raymond Chandler

Her grin changed her quiet presence into something altogether different, something that made it hard to look away. There were lots of pretty girls in my hometown, including my on-again, off-again girlfriend, but no one who looked like this odd girl with her sprinkle of freckles and ragged haircut. Had someone attacked her head with a pair of scissors? — Katherine Fleet