Bulldoze Quotes

#1. With various people complaining about "price gouging? ... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" ? not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn.

Thomas Sowell

#2. I have nothing left to lose. Which is why I drive my shoulder into her rib cage, hoist her off the floor, and bulldoze us both through the glass wall, into the storm outside.

Anna Banks

#3. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued reams of playground regulations and actually gone so far as to recommend against "tripping hazards, like tree stumps and rocks." Maybe we should just bulldoze the local parks and put in a couple of blobs ... made of plastic.

Lenore Skenazy

#4. Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.

Henry Bonilla

#5. Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.

Bob Goodlatte

#6. Why couldn't love be rational like everything else? What right did it have to bulldoze through your reasoning and leave you spinning?

Victoria Connelly

#7. Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to bulldoze the spot where Neil Armstrong stepped off the Eagle lander. But even innocent visits could be damaging.

Seth Shostak

#8. Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.

Donna Edwards

#9. So considering how the current official religion of China seems to be something like "Stand still while we bulldoze your house to build this dam" it's hard to put a finger on the relationship between ancient Chinese tales and any specific religion.

Cory O'Brien

#10. If China wants to build a new six-lane expressway, it can bulldoze its way past any number of villages in its path; in India, if you want to widen a two-lane road, you could be tied up in court for a dozen years over compensation entitlements.

Shashi Tharoor

#11. I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the temples of Kyoto or, of course, the Buddhas of Bamiyan.

Richard Dawkins

#12. Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.

Stewart Brand

#13. I never had a clique. If I throw a party, the only thing connecting people is me. Maybe I just don't believe in fear. I bulldoze right in.

Liz Goldwyn

#14. When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter.

Douglas Brinkley

#15. You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.

Marisha Pessl

#16. Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious.

H.W.L. Poonja

#17. My line of thoughts about dogs is analogous. A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones. And their passing moods may reflect the passing moods of others.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#18. Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

Henry Miller

#19. We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

D.H. Lawrence

#20. I'm afraid that you're leaving me, so i'm leaving you first.

Lauren Myracle

#21. In the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.

May Sarton

#22. If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too.

Malcolm Gladwell

#23. To think is not having but not having.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#24. The Impersonal God seen through the mists of sense is personal.

Swami Vivekananda

#25. One cannot remember mother and forget God.

Thomas S. Monson

#26. I wanted to talk more, to spend more time with him, to hear more about him. I wanted more.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#27. The understanding is universal, pantheistic, the love of the universe; but the grand characteristic of religion, and of the Christian religion especially, is that it is thoroughly anthropotheistic, the exclusive love of man for himself, the exclusive self-affirmation of the human nature.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#28. Choosing ... it has always hurt. And always will. I know.

George R R Martin

#29. I think that for the coward every day carries a kind of death.

David Gemmell

#30. We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into self-victimization. It is for each one of us to regain our self-geniusness.

Vishwas Chavan