Uncle Ruckus Boondocks Quotes & Sayings

You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context. — Jose Mourinho

There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took strength. Far more than dying. — Maya Banks

You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control. — Robert Ringer

That witch talks a big game, but she couldn't be a bigger candy-ass if she dropped her pink little undies and sat on a pile of gumdrops. — Danielle Paige

I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That Didn't Matter - that's what I called my face. — Debra Winger

That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool! — Adam Savage

When you sit on something trying to preserve it, you die and become sterile. — Garth Brooks

Never lose hope
when the Beloved
sends you away.
If you're abandoned
if you're left hopeless
tomorrow for sure
you'll be called again.
If the door is shut
right in your face
keep waiting with patience
don't leave right away.
Seeing your patience
your love will soon
summon you with grace
raise you like a champion.
let the sky be overcast
love will show the way — Rumi

Although I admired scholarship so much in Cleric, I was not deceived about myself; I knew that I should never be a scholar. I could never lose myself for long among impersonal things. Mental excitement was apt to send me with a rush back to my own naked land and the figures scattered upon it. While I was in the very act of yearning toward the new forms that Cleric brought up before me, my mind plunged away from me, and I suddenly found myself thinking of the places and people of my own infinitesimal past. — Willa Cather

A thought has no size in the physical sense but is vast as compared to the physical acts and objects into which it is later precipitated. The power of a thought is enormous and superior to all the successive physical acts, objects, and events that body forth its energy. A thought often endures for a time much greater than the whole life of the man who thought it. — Harold Percival

Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the settling of the dirt around the body, thus making landscaping more uniform and cost effective. As an added bonus, vaults can be customized and sold at a markup. Faux marble? Bronze? Take your pick, family. — Caitlin Doughty

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies. — Jonah Goldberg

The best means to an end are not always those that appear most direct. — David Brin

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call. — Austin Peck

The safest place to be is always halfway into your future, without even knowing what it is. — Robert Krulwich