Jackboot Quotes

#1. When these images clash - as in The Fascist octupus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot - it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.

George Orwell

#2. I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monologues when I was 10. I still know the whole 'To be, or not to be ... ' monologue, because I knew it when I was 10.

Constance Wu

#3. Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

Gautama Buddha

#4. I make more money than I need, ever.

Jenna Marbles

#5. Nature finds its peace in silence, forgiveness, and universal love.

Debasish Mridha

#6. You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave.

Jennifer Connelly

#7. Language has been mobilised and sent into battle; it directs the human carnage of conflict with its enunciation of emotion, stimulating souls to abandon peace.

Daniel S. Fletcher

#8. A good leader needs to know how to follow.

Casey Affleck

#9. In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.

Edmund Morgan

#10. The preoccupations of seventeen-year-old girls
their looks, their clothes, their social life
do not change very much from generation to generation. But in every generation there seem to be a few who make other choices. Amy was one of the few.

Elisabeth Elliot

#11. Know what your customers want most and what your company does best. Focus on where those two meet.

Kevin Stirtz

#12. It wasn't a question of if a bull rider got injured, but rather when and how badly.

Nicholas Sparks

#13. But what hope is there for the world, if a nation of penniless peasants can't try to climb up out of the mud without being crushed under the jackboot of Uncle Sam?

Ken Follett

#14. Knowing what to expect next gives children a sense of security.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#15. My work with AIDS patients started right at the beginning of the epidemic, totally unplanned and spontaneous, as all my work had proceeded in the previous two decades, if it were not already my whole life-style! In the early eighties, we knew very little about this peculiar disease.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#16. The more money you make, the more the culture already attracts you to serve it, with an aura of glitter and power, to reproduce it in even stronger ways. And you have to resist that so much if any meaningful artistic integrity is to be had.

Fady Joudah

#17. Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.

John Derbyshire

#18. If only the president hadn't tried to dodge, he would have been all right. As it was, the toe of her jackboot caught him in the groin with perfect unplanned accuracy. His mouth made a soundless "O" and he went down behind the rostrum. Cordelia,

Lois McMaster Bujold

#19. I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.

Rachel Cohn