1940 Gangster Quotes

#1. The West wants unconditional love; failing that, unconditional surrender.

Nadeem Aslam

#2. Those who are too rigid in their beliefs will break rather than bend with fortune's blows.

Jacqueline Carey

#3. It would be good if you opened your heart to the fullness of time and spirit.

Virginia Madsen

#4. In that case, on behalf of Earthlife, I urge that, with full knowledge of our limitations, we vastly increase our knowledge of the Solar System and then begin to settle other worlds.

Carl Sagan

#5. Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.

Phillip E. Johnson

#7. Jesus Christ," said my father. "Can you imagine? If it wasn't punishment enough ending up in a ruddy wheelchair, then you get our Lou turning up to keep you company."
"Bernard!" my mother scolded.
Behind me, Granddad was laughing into his mug of tea.

Jojo Moyes

#8. I'd have been queen of all England, but Massachusetts haunted me and wouldn't let me go.

C.F. Joyce

#9. He had read about evil in Efanor's little book, and how it permeated the doings of Men, but he had never foud such doings evil, rather good and bad ... but none without self-interest, none he could not understand even in terms of his own will to have his way.

C.J. Cherryh

#10. I started meeting the right people, like [producer] Dave [Okumu], who explained to me how songwriting is really simple - "just like shitting," he said. "You gotta let it all out." When he put it like that, however disgusting it is, it made a lot of sense to me.

Jessie Ware

#11. And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare ... oh, it's just an oboe player.

Steve Irwin

#12. McDonald's breakfast for under a dollar is actually more expensive than that. You have to factor in the cost of bypass surgery.

George Carlin

#13. Personal Responsibility is something that you should do because it is morally right, legally required, etc.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Each dog barks in its own yard.

Rudyard Kipling

#15. As the beloved son, I have to claim my full dignity and begin preparing myself to become the father.

Henri J.M. Nouwen