Carlos Steady Quotes

#1. Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and push me off a bridge? You must be out your damn mind.

D. L. Hughley

#2. Mom's a hypochondriac, too, so the best part was that every week she would get the disease that the medical shows were dramatizing. I'll never forget, they did an episode on sickle cell anemia, which as far as I know, is almost exclusively an African-American affliction.

Kathy Griffin

#3. The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.

Peter Kreeft

#4. Lymond surveyed the grinning audience with an air of gentle discovery. Is there no work to be done? Or perhaps it's a holiday?

Dorothy Dunnett

#5. Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Roger Staubach

#6. Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.

Oswald Chambers

#7. You're alive, Haven, but when are you going to start living?

Katherine Bogle

#8. My characters always like themselves.

Amy Sedaris

#9. You're not all that God has called you to be, as a follower of Jesus, if you're missions-minded but not engaged in God's mission here and now.

John Piper

#10. When they give you a choice, it's a selection of handpicked possibilities they have prescreened. No matter what you decide, the core choice has already been made, and you weren't involved in it.

Ilona Andrews

#11. Because she knew from experience that what came next was something straight out of a Pitbull featuring Ke$ha song. She was going down. Although, as far as she could figure, no one was yelling, "Timber!

Julie Ann Walker

#12. I mean, I think it would humanize Hillary [Clinton] incredibly to detail how she was involved in the family charitable organization.

Rush Limbaugh

#13. It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

Frank Rich

#14. If the Old Man said something was so, then it probably was, because he was one of these cautious babies who'll look out the window at a cloudburst and say, "It seems to be raining," on the off-chance that somebody's pouring water off the roof.

Dashiell Hammett

#15. I secretly assumed, as poets do,
The duty on me to define the moon.

Jorge Luis Borges

#16. Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.

Barney Frank