Insistent Def Quotes

#1. A grifter's got an irresistible urge to be the guy who's wise. There's nothin' to whipping a fool. Hell, fools are made to be whipped. But to take another pro. Even your partner, who knows you and has his eye on you. That's a score! No matter what happens.

Donald E. Westlake

#2. You don't have to finish what you start. But start.

Marty Rubin

#3. That's what goalkeeping is all about. It's really having nothing to do at times, and then having to make sure you are concentrating and ready to make the save when called upon. Going in 1-0 down would have been a travesty.

Kasey Keller

#4. Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

Meghan O'Rourke

#5. I can feel the worries fading away. I'm relaxed and happy - happier than I've been in a while. I am in the moment. I am here.

Jennifer Niven

#6. Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.

Mattie J.T. Stepanek

#7. Totally self-reliant, he is a master negotiator. He believes no one, expects the worst of people, distrusts his allies and adversaries alike and makes no pretense at intimacy.

Mark Stevens

#8. It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.

Henry Rollins

#9. he was tried and hanged at Northampton on July 23. (During his trial he claimed that his pet cat had become possessed by the devil and incited him to his crimes. The cat was also hanged.) But

Dan Jones

#10. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

William Shakespeare

#11. Today, Israel is stronger than ever. Israel has defensive tools of its own - those developed in the past and those developed today and those that will be developed tomorrow.

Shimon Peres

#12. I do feel a responsibility to address things that are problematic, but I don't have to go out of my way to do that.

Wesley Morris

#13. I was more than just a moody artist.

Rick Springfield