Fracas Quotes

#1. I believe that 'advocacy journalism' is not an oxymoron. If that means that I'm going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of obsession over what this means from left and right, then so be it. I will be disruptive of it.

Chris Cuomo

#2. Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

Emile M. Cioran

#3. First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

Huston Smith

#4. When they're laughing at you, their guard is down. When their guard is down, you can kick them in the fracas.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.

Peter George Peterson

#6. The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, 'Madden' is such an offensive game. But the Hit Stick really gave you the opportunity to shine on defense for the first time.

Larry Fitzgerald

#7. Your spirit is strong enough to survive any situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same way war propels hard technology, AIDS has created wartime conditions in the field of biology that will have all sorts of spin-offs.

Paul Di Filippo

#9. The whole idea of having a free trade area when you have gyrating exchange rates doesn't make sense at all. It just spoils the effect of any kind of free trade agreement.

Robert Mundell

#10. You'll learn one of these days.

Ernie Lindsey

#11. What rattled and thumped was a knotted towel full of melting ice cubes. Somebody who loved me very much had put them on the back of my head. Somebody who loved me less had bashed in the back of my skull. It could have been the same person. People have moods.

Raymond Chandler

#12. Giraffes are fairytale animals, almost heraldic - as if from the land of fables. They have extremely beautiful faces, huge eyes, very sensitive nostrils and oh, blue tongues!

Joanna Lumley

#13. The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Richard Bach

#14. Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

Robertson Davies

#16. The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

St. Jerome

#17. If you are not a lady, then you are a whore. You do not want to know what would happen to a human whore within these walls. He seemed tired as he said it, as if he'd been there, done that, and hadn't had a good time.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#18. I think that marijuana should be legalized. I think the only reason it isn't legal is because politicians who smoked it when they were young men or young women just don't have the courage when they become politicians to legalize it.

Richard Branson