Umocnit Quotes & Sayings

If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees. — Casey Stengel

Civil asset forfeiture was originally intended as a way to cripple organized crime through the seizure of property used in a criminal enterprise. Regrettably, it has become a tool for unscrupulous law enforcement officials, acting without due process, to profit by destroying the livelihood of innocent individuals, many of whom never recover the lawful assets taken from them. When the rights of the innocent can be so easily violated, no one's rights are safe. We call on Congress and state legislatures to enact reforms to protect law-abiding citizens against abusive asset forfeiture tactics. — Republican Party

WYTIWYG" (pronounced "witty-wig"): What You Test Is What You Get. — Kelly Gallagher

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. — Sigmund Freud

I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth. — Larry Fitzgerald

Yer true future, the future waiting to set your soul on fire, can only be found in the past. — Maeve Greyson

When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed. — Tea Obreht

Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship? — H. P. Blavatsky

Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care. — Margaret J. Wheatley

Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language. — Mark Pagel

I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director. — Martin Scorsese

Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in the town. It was a bad feeling, and it usually came on him in the mornings early, when the streets were completely empty, the way they were one Saturday morning in late November. — Larry McMurtry

I'm shocked," St. Vincent said gravely, "but I'll recover." Looking around them as if to ascertain that he wouldn't be overheard, he whispered conspiratorially, "I'm not really a gentleman, you know. — Lisa Kleypas

Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think. — Bill Vaughan

Music was the voice I didn't have. — James Hetfield