Lightning Auction Quotes

#1. It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.

Ludwig Von Mises

#2. It's been my experience," observed Emma McChesney, "that when a firm condescends to pay a woman twice as much as a man, that means she's worth six times as much.

Edna Ferber

#3. Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

Patanjali

#4. I ate too much and masturbated too recently, you know? It's bad to like jerk off and run out the door, 'cause you run into somebody. "Oh, she knows ... " You got to take some time alone to process the shame.

Louis C.K.

#5. Running is a simple sport. You don't need all the zoopy zoopy.

Bill Squires

#6. One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.

Patricia Marx

#7. I tried not to laugh. I thought about how my Southern Baptist friends would respond to the suggestion that their entire denomination was making people gay.

Justin Lee

#8. The Italians were getting so accustomed to tragedies and disasters that their appetite for sensation was becoming jaded.

Timothy Holme

#9. You did not carry yourself
away from pain
to become pain itself.

Ijeoma Umebinyuo

#10. He smelled like leather and woodsmoke. He smelled like a fire burning.

Sierra Simone

#11. Center for Disease Control in Atlanta is a striking case in point. Its network of sample hospitals allowed it to first "discover" - in the epidemiological sense - such hitherto unknown diseases as toxic shock syndrome, Legionnaire's disease, and AIDS.

James C. Scott

#12. What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?

Willa Cather

#13. Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.

Meg Whitman