Askari Quotes

#1. My best guess is that my garbled allusion to Ezra Pound in the following must have come from my parents' reading aloud. The Askari fell off the ostrich In the rain Huge sing Goddamn And what became of the ostrich? Huge sing Goddamn

Richard Dawkins

#2. I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

Godfrey Reggio

#3. Fear, at its center, is a perceived loss of control. When life spins wildly, we grab for a component of life we can manage: our diet, the tidiness of a house, the armrest of a plane, or, in many cases, people. The more insecure we feel, the meaner we become.

Max Lucado

#4. Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition. (from Workbook)

Steven Heighton

#5. You see, unlearning is a very important process towards becoming enlightened, because in this life you will have learned wrong ways and those wrong ways that you have learned are barriers blocking you from becoming who you really are, therefore it is vital that they are unlearned.

Andrew James Pritchard

#6. Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

Stewart Udall

#7. Raul, man, he's like a Twinkie. He would survive a nuclear war.

Ray Hudson

#8. Just remember, family isn't perfect. It's just perfectly ours.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. Be ready for reconciliation after quarrels.

Cleobulus

#10. All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.

Paris Hilton

#11. Technology at present is covert philosophy; the point is to make it overtly philosophical.

Philip E. Agre

#12. I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

Arthur Hailey

#13. Remember, every treasure comes with a price.

Kevin Kwan

#14. My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.

Betty White

#15. My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.

Evan Davis

#16. There's always more."
"More money, more mayhem, more scores to settle. Was there never another dream?

Leigh Bardugo