Parnham Chargers Quotes

#1. When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

Walter Jon Williams

#2. Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.

Jane Hirshfield

#3. Soften my hard self-opinionatedness, which time has hardened so exceedingly!

Gertrude The Great

#4. An intelligence officer from a Middle Eastern country neighboring Syria told me that ISIS members say they are always pleased when sophisticated weapons are sent to anti-Assad groups of any kind, because they can always get the arms off them by threats of force or cash payments.

Patrick Cockburn

#5. The right solution is a progressive annual tax on capital. This will make it possible to avoid an endless inegalitarian spiral while preserving competition and incentives for new instances of primitive accumulation.

Thomas Piketty

#6. Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

Candice Bergen

#7. In the business world, I did fairly well, but wasn't happy. A bout of sciatica put me flat on my back. All I could do was read, listen to my mother's stories about the Sandovals, and daydream: a return to self. My writing career had begun.

Sandra Cisneros

#8. A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

Robert Hughes

#9. Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in Pakistan in 2009 succeeded only on the seventeenth attempt.

Teju Cole

#10. Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

Donald Rumsfeld

#11. Maybe I might be repeating the same mistake again ... But don't you think it is far better to regret what I have done than what I have not done yet ... ?

Hiroko Sakai

#12. I can't believe that we could be so impermanent

Nina LaCour