Gallic Shrug Quotes

#1. Joe stared at him. "You let her do that?" Lamonnier shrugged. An expressive, Gallic shrug, just like my mother's.

Lee Child

#2. The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. My books are friends that never fail me.
(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)

Thomas Carlyle

#4. Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes.

Frank Chodorov

#5. Kayla Robinson, if you don't shut up I'll fly down there and suck every last bit of blood from your stupid cheating cow body!

P.C. Cast

#6. The one thing that people don't get about GE is that, to the people who work here, it's not a company. It's not just a job. You feel like you're part of a 120-year-old ever-growing, ever-improving family.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

#7. We all need to feel understood and connected to ourselves and to others.

Sue Patton Thoele

#8. I voted for the black guy, and what we got was the white guy

Michael Moore

#9. If the owner of a franchise is approached and promised good money for his team to lose an irrelevant game, he tells his players to lose the game and they don't care because they get paid huge amounts anyway.

Rashid Latif

#10. Power depends ultimately on physical force. By teaching people that violence is wrong (except, of course, when the system itself uses violence via the police or the military), the system maintains its monopoly on physical force and thus keeps all power in its own hands.

Theodore Kaczynski

#11. 'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

Gary Bauer

#12. God gave us his word of salvation, for us to become the agents of His principles and the doers of His will, His judgment on earth

Sunday Adelaja

#13. Having agreed to play Elrond, I realized how much had to be worked out about this character: the idea of portraying someone who is immortal, for one thing; plus the fact he is noble, wise, powerful, good - and beautiful! I began to think that he was altogether impossible to play!

Hugo Weaving

#14. I like to go shopping, to the movies, all the girl stuff. Just a normal girl.

Victoria Azarenka

#15. The very act of visualizing yourself performing at your best prior to any event or activity will improve your performance.

Brian Tracy

#16. Take away the things that make you panic and you won't panic. And then he spent three years wondering why everyone found that so hard to understand. All he was doing was living instead of dying. Some people get cancer. Some people get crazy. Nobody tries to take the chemo away. Solomon

John Corey Whaley