Prebendary Quotes

#1. We hold that gain after toil, triumph after adversity, achievement to a goal long-sought, is a greater beneficence than prebendary nutrient from the teat of an indulgent government.

Jack Vance

#2. There is something deeply unsettling about a child crying insincerely.

Emma Forrest

#3. [Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents.

Kevin Drum

#4. A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!

Esme Raji Codell

#5. That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

Barack Obama

#6. Ranger raised my bruised and bloody wrist to his mouth and kissed it. I'm sorry to have to do this to you, but there

Janet Evanovich

#7. I believe that true success in bodybuilding nutrition comes from some variety in diet. It allows for more creativity, enables a bodybuilder to enjoy diversity, and causes less stress emotionally and mentally compared to a very basic diet for which a bodybuilder will lose enthusiasm for over time.

Robert Cheeke

#8. If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman.

Lynsey Addario

#9. A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

#10. Well, we became a vegetarian. But that didn't last very long, because, um, I don't like vegetables. Or salad, nothing like that!

Dakota Fanning