Holstering Quotes

#1. The boys and girls in the SVR, many of them former KGB officers, weren't holstering their Makarovs just yet.

Bryan Denson

#2. I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.

Joss Whedon

#3. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away ... the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God.

John Quincy Adams

#4. The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in.

Phil Harris

#5. The whole history of life is a record of cycles.

Ellsworth Huntington

#6. Patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of a body politic to one end.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#7. What is so intriguing about this interplay between technology and the human imagination is that here we are dealing with the equation. As I imagine, so I become - and this is the very essence of magic.

Nevill Drury

#8. How can a radical scepticism about the state be squared with a religious dedication to the notion that market outcomes are, by definition, optimal?

Yanis Varoufakis

#9. My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

Jorge Luis Borges

#10. The sage has no concern for himself, but makes the concerns of others his own.

Laozi

#11. Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

Edwin Louis Cole

#12. Why do you do what you do? Why do I do what I do? We will probably neither ever know, and so what we do on a daily basis is complete rubbish.

Jim Kroswell

#13. Money is the fuel for choices. Money gives me choices, so it's not nothing, it's something," he continued. "But it's not the end all, be all. There are other things in my life that I did not purchase with money that are very valuable.

Dave Chappelle

#14. Although selfhood depends causally upon the existence of the brain, it amounts to something far more than the brain. This something is vague and intangible, and might best be described, I think, as a semi-fictional narrative that is in constant need of writing, editing, and preserving.

Neel Burton