Truculence Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

I want to tell the world of cycling to please join me in telling Pat McQuaid to resign. I have never seen such an abuse of power in cycling's history - resign, Pat, if you love cycling. Resign even if you hate the sport. — Greg LeMond

They [Chinese] will need a sympathetic intercessor with other people in the world to avoid conflict and create trust, and of course, Dalai Lama would be ideal. In another ten years from now though, he won't have the time to be really effective for them. They're truly wasting their time not using him now. — Robert Thurman

I do a real analysis of who actually owns things - it's the British ... the Dutch ... then it's the Arabs ... then it's the French ... then it's the Jews ... and then, on down the line. — Alex Jones

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense. — Thomas Carlyle

It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle. — Linda Hogan

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I will love you more today than I loved you yesterday, and I will love you even more, tomorrow. — William Chapman

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. — Walter Scott

I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention. — Greg Maddux

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people. — Imogen Cunningham

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did. — Darius Rucker

I loved someone so much that I broke up with him because I didn't want to get hurt. Then when he proved he loved me back, I broke up with him again. I'm a fucking mess, but so are you. Most of us are. — Sarah Colonna

The world out there is burning, Ty."
Ty ran his finger down Zane's cheek, nodding. "But we were born in a kiln — Abigail Roux

Philosophers feel a little more cautious about letting down their technical guard lest the general public doesn't recognize their special credentials. It's the fact that philosophy is of general interest that, paradoxically, keeps philosophers from wanting to speak in a way that's accessible to the general public. — Rebecca Goldstein

Turing knew of Babbage's work, and the universal Turing machine can be seen as a reincarnation of Difference Engine No. 2. In fact, Turing had gone much further, and provided computing with a solid theoretical basis, — Simon Singh