Cresswell Auction Quotes

#1. Man, he's lucky I couldn't track down his ass or I'd have kicked it so hard that he'd be shitting from his mouth.

Bijou Hunter

#2. Social systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his door and then turn you away, rather his home address is hard to find. The government handcuffs you so they don't have to shoot you trying to escape. And so on.

Tyler Cowen

#3. For the first time since 1979, we are talking to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Obama says talking to him is probably pointless, but it's a hell of a relief from Mitch McConnell.

Bill Maher

#4. What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?

Donald Miller

#5. The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

Aristotle.

#6. When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

Janet Echelman

#7. Don't talk to me or bother me and I won't bother you. All right?

Charles Bukowski

#8. When our pride usurps Truth, we walk on the shifting sands of relativism, an ego driven reality.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#9. Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Colin Powell

#10. He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other.

Eoin Colfer

#11. Writing is not a choice for me, it is a calling.

Brenda B. Taylor

#12. Frankly, I had enjoyed the war ... and why do people want peace if the war is so much fun?

Adrian Carton De Wiart