Zakuski Table Quotes & Sayings

Our love affair with guns has nothing to do with tyranny, or militias, or self-preservation. Just ask any NRA member the following: If Jesus Christ himself were to come down off the cross and grant you one wish, would you opt for a world without guns
or the one we live in now? If every gun owner truly feared for their life and liberty, the answer would be obvious. But it's not about life and liberty. It's all about the sheer hard-on of owning a gun. — Quentin R. Bufogle

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run. — Viggo Mortensen

Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. ... Hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful. — Elon Musk

Everywhere I looked, hope existed - but only as some kind of green shoot in the midst of struggle. It was a theological concept, not a spiritual practice. Hope, I began to realize, was not a state of life. It was at best a gift of life. — Joan D. Chittister

Many people felt much closer to their own sex than to what was seen as the literally "opposite" - and alien - sex. In letters and diaries, women often referred to men as "the grosser sex. — Stephanie Coontz

If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Seattle's Moraine not only make Washington State proud, but also the whole American progressive music scene joyful ... It's simply an impressive dead on eleven song tour de force ... GET THIS! Highly Recommended! — Lee Henderson

Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it. — Brian Tracy

My mind to me an empire is. — Robert Southwell

In addition to its use in arithmetic and science, the Hindu-Arabic number system is the only genuinely universal language on Earth, apart perhaps for the Windows operating system, which has achieved the near universal adoption of a conceptually and technologically poor product by the sheer force of market dominance. — Keith Devlin

I think the simpler the better. — Ashley Graham

Humans do worse things with money rather than for money. — M.F. Moonzajer

An actress should never, ever, be asked to run beside a van in red disco boots for more than about half a block, and then only if her child is being kidnapped. — Roger Ebert

Future strong is being focused enough and mindful enough and courageous enough to search for patterns and order when all others see chaos and noise. — Bill Jensen

Forgive and call back the energy wasted on past events. — Caroline Myss