Mike Stoklasa Quotes

#1. I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Lin Yutang

#2. We are all born wise. Unfortunately, we all don't die that way.

Anthony Marais

#3. If ye have needs to see to, do it quickly."
"You're a stubborn man," she said.
"Tis a good quality in a man," he muttered under his breath as he picked up the saddle.

Margaret Mallory

#4. Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.

Jan C. Ting

#5. This is a commodities business, so the companies that do it best are the ones that do it more efficiently.

Kate Warne

#6. A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

H.L. Mencken

#7. When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a pet white rabbit. The young squaddie has to feed, brush, stroke and comfort his rabbit for a week, and become attached to it. Then he has to shoot it.

Matthew Parris

#8. Every man comes into the world with a predisposition to grow along certain lines, and growth is easier for him along those lines than in any other way.

Wallace D. Wattles

#9. But his heart had been made as a match for Elaine's, and now it was unable to bear the burden which hers had been forced to lay down.

T.H. White

#10. If the authorities under various false pretenses, continue curtailing the rights of citizens, so that they merely become serfs to a handful of multinational companies, a global rebellion of ordinary people against super capitalism is certainly not inconceivable.

A.J. Beirens

#11. Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#12. Good books do not make people wiser or happier
only more conscious.

Mason Cooley

#13. As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

Chris Van Allsburg

#14. We try to transform each detainee from a young man who wants to die to a young man who wants to live. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef

Robert Lacey

#15. Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson