Colonel Hyrum Graff Quotes

#1. If you can win an argument by stretching your lips for a smile, why open your mouth and lose it.

Sukant Ratnakar

#2. People can't think when their minds are clouded with fear.

Hamza Yusuf

#3. Life is offensive and refuses to apologise

Michael Leunig

#4. I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#5. Kashmir is my last resort. I think, if I truly deserve it one day, I should go there and stay there for quite a while. Or if I really need it at any point, it should be my haven, my Shangri-la.

Robert Plant

#6. But the officer stood up and stepped across the room to Ender. He held out his hand. My name is Graff, Ender. Colonel Hyrum Graff. I'm director of primary training at Battle School in the Belt. I've come to invite you to enter the school.

Orson Scott Card

#7. If as we accept God is the perfect epitome of justice, mercy, goodness, and compassion, then our efforts to define the divine will through Sharia should be predicated on achieving a result that is merciful compassionate.

Mark Durie

#8. You can dwell on things, and if you open your eyes and pay attention to it, those things start popping up around you.

Kalup Linzy

#9. I have five, six, seven things I do before those lines are in my brain. I say them like I'm a robot; I sing them. I put a pencil in my mouth, and I say them. I cook. I play with a cushion and say them - so they really are inside of me.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

#10. Having a teenager is like having a really, really shitty roommate. They eat all your food and steal your clothes and take money out of your purse and borrow your car without asking.

Karin Slaughter

#11. intel and no one gave it a second thought.

David Baldacci

#12. You know what you call the two winners of that $580 million PowerBall lottery? ... Former Democrats

Jay Leno

#13. Death is a doorway. It is a very small, thin doorway and only a portion of our being can walk through.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

Ralph Merkle