Boondoggles Quotes

#1. Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses ... in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them.

Ralph Nader

#2. Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.

Bob Beauprez

#3. The purpose of society is to prevent natural behavior.

Lisa Kleypas

#4. I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#5. Joy recollected is indeed no longer the emotion itself.

Adam McOmber

#6. You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.

Andrea Gibson

#7. I was doing science," Giddon said. "He threw a bean."
"I was testing the impact of a bean upon water," Bann said.
"That's not even a real thing."
"Perhaps I'll test the impact of a bean upon your beautiful white shirt.

Kristin Cashore

#8. Daddy thinks that Mama is everything a woman should be: beautiful, clever, charming. Beauty has a way of making the bad things tolerable. When Mama tilts her green eyes at you, it's hard to remember why you were mad in the first place.

Jenny Han

#9. Bad luck was a fact of life and one dealt with it or not.
Good luck, on the other hand, was something one created.

Michael Flynn