Unwrought Metal Quotes & Sayings

The best way to increase wolves in America, rabbits in Australia, and snakes in India is to pay a bounty on their scalps. Then every patriot goes to raising them. — Steven D. Levitt

It's hard to be natural in a scene when you pick up the phone and no one is there. — Adele Exarchopoulos

Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors'. — Kahlil Gibran

I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time. — Miep Gies

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people. — Jane Horrocks

If the mobs were not made up of masked Klansmen, just well-known local men 'with their horrible faces,' it is natural to wonder how those ordinary people first coalesced into gangs of night riders. How, that is, did a bunch of farmers decide to set fire to churches led by respected men like Levi Greenlee Jr. and Boyd Oliver, and to train the beads of their shotguns on the houses of peaceful landowners like Joseph and Eliza Kellogg? How did they summon the nerve to threaten the cooks and maids of even the wealthiest, most powerful whites in Cumming? Given that it required an organized efforts, kept up not just over months but years, and given just how much will it took to sustain the racial ban generations - from what source did all that energy come, and in what epic drama did these people think they were at last taking part? — Patrick Phillips

The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them. — James Anthony Froude

I have convictions, and the courage of my convictions allows me to overcome my fears and act in a courageous manner ... — Jay Kopelman

If we are nothing, there is nothing at all to serve as a barrier to our boundless expression of love. Being nothing in this way, we are also, inevitably, everything. 'Everything' does not mean self-aggrandizement, but a decisive recognition of interconnection; we are not separate. Both the clear, open space of 'nothing' and the interconnected mess of 'everything' awakens us to our true nature. — Sharon Salzberg

I'm a bean counter. Oh, I'm not an accountant, but I did spill pinto beans on the counter. — Jarod Kintz

Every guy liked to think that his demons were meaner and crazier than anybody else's. — Tom Piccirilli

Achieving the MDGs is not optional; it is an essential investment in a safer, more human and prosperous world — Kofi Annan

Obviously there was no point in being a bachelor if his houseman was going to filch his booze. If he was going to get robbed, he might just as well get married. — Groucho Marx

Look, I guess it's natural, you're teenagers, its springtime,everyone's thoughts are turning to birds and bees and caterpillars and moths ...
- Iggy — James Patterson