Gideon Graves Quotes

#1. We have a mutual friend, see, and she- Ah, screw it. This is Gideon. When would it be convenient for you to die?

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#2. A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

Max Weber

#3. Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.

Huey Newton

#4. For a slave to be taught that he should no longer lie and cheat with revolutionary; more astonishing still was the slave's discovery that he did not want to lie or cheat and that he now loved the owner whom he had once resented and feared.

John Charles Pollock

#5. When they ask me why I jumped off the roof of my brother's apartment building, I will tell them it was because I wanted the sky to mourn me.

And because I wanted to know what it feels like to hit something so hard it shatters me into bits that they can never sew back together.

Kady Hunt

#6. I'd rather be single, happy, and lonely sometimes than married, lonely, and happy sometimes.

Mark Fiore

#7. All of us long for a competent, uncorrupt, charismtatic leader. We will leap at the opportunity to support, to believe, to feel good.

Carl Sagan

#8. What nourishes me, destroys me

Christopher Marlowe

#9. I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.

Jared Polis

#10. Instead of trying to get to the bottom of why her daughter was floundering through life, she sent me off to ranch boot camp to "prove" myself worthy of art school.

Nicole Williams

#11. One of the leading theories of why electroconvulsive therapy is effective for most severe depressions is that it causes a loss of short-term memory - patients feel better because they can't remember why they were sad.

Daniel Goleman

#12. Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.

Ted Rall

#13. Because the perpetrators typically have little understanding as to why they are sexually assaulting children, they usually are unable to stop after the first assault. Abusive behavior continues until a crisis of some kind prevents further abuse.

Tony Martens

#14. It is warm within the mansions of Hel.

Carrie Jones

#15. nothing is ever what you imagine, is it?

Sheridan Hay