Jackson Haines Quotes

#1. The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.

Charles Kuralt

#2. Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

Philip Roth

#4. There are a lot of car bombs and roadside bombs, house bombs, even, in this city planted by ISIS. So - but it's going to be a tough fight ahead, and the Iraqi generals expect to take the city back, the city of Ramadi, by mid-January.

Tom Bowman

#5. Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United States Senate would actually ratify a bad treaty, anything called for under the treaty would require legislation passed through both houses.

Thomas Schelling

#6. My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

Mason Cooley

#7. I like religion and art because they know they are servants to life; I hate science and philosophy because they think they are its masters.

Raheel Farooq

#8. I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

#9. There are two things that make
the conscious world move,
decision and desire.

Toby Barlow

#10. The only thing wrong with trying to please everyone is that there's always at least one person who will remain unhappy. You.

Elizabeth Parker

#11. But then someday the truth would come out. It always did. Repress what you will, someday the truth comes out.

Jeffery Deaver

#12. There's an opportunity cost to everything.

Julie B. Beck

#13. That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

Bruce Springsteen

#14. The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

Daley Thompson

#15. As they walked, he leaned low and close to her ear. Don't worry. I won't have anything dangerous for dinner, at least, not a weapon.

Cat Johnson