Under Democratic Underground Quotes & Sayings

Why ruin my sister's birthday simply because the entire planet was going to hell in a hand basket? — T.C. Boyle

AT TRIGON I LEARNT business is all about people, so to ensure I had the first look at executive talent and could hire the best, I created my own recruitment company. I needed a temporary CFO at Emerald and was told about a recruitment consultant called Carmen Bailey. Within 10 minutes of meeting me, Carmen had asked more questions about my business and what drove and motivated me than anyone I had ever met. Carmen is a perfect example of someone who puts the client first. She is never transactional and for her it wasn't about finding me a contractor but, rather, about wanting to form a long-term sustainable relationship with my business. — Diane Foreman

Slipped onto the passenger seat, and Ranger leaned over and kissed me just below my ear. It was a hello kiss. Nothing serious. If I wanted it to get serious all I had to do was smile. — Janet Evanovich

Brother will kill brother, spilling blood across the land — Dave Mustaine

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. — F Scott Fitzgerald

As long as our consciousness is materialistic, there is no room for joy. However on the spiritual platform three things automatically happen: eternity, knowledge and bliss. — Bhakti Charu Swami

Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day. — Larry King

Knowing someone is not enough
You need to understand them
Because knowing and understanding are different — Subhasis Das

Everybody blows their first money. — Lorne Michaels

If the ways of this world are based on equivalent exchange, as alchemy says, then in order to allow for a new generation to enjoy good fortune, then the price that we must pay is to carry the bodies of the dead across a river of blood. — Hiromu Arakawa

A Christian is Christ in the inward humanity; and a Jew is Christ in the figure, and in the office of his law, viz. according to nature. — Jakob Bohme

We don't live in a particularly attractive world. I don't really remember, except as a small boy, anything but a pretty grim world. — Christopher Lee

Sure, he was attracted to her, but women always had to go beyond that.
Women [had] nesting fantasies. It wasn't long before they were
redecorating your apartment and criticizing your choice of mustard. — Janet Evanovich

Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are concerned with or thrilled by the astounding-yet true-facts of science, as put forth in the pages of, say, Scientific American. — Douglas Hofstadter

To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond. — John Bunyan