Pronged Quotes

#1. The war on meth must be fought with a multi-pronged approach.

Greg Walden

#2. It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.

Lisa Ling

#3. When a woman once asked Joe how he could come from such a magnificent home and such a good family and still become a gangster, Joe's answer was two-pronged: (a) he wasn't a gangster, he was an outlaw; (b) he came from a magnificent house not a magnificent home.

Dennis Lehane

#4. His third-floor bedroom wasn't an all-American room. It was an all-English room, lacking only a three-pronged outlet and a draft.

Peter Smith

#5. I had one girl send me an e-mail saying she wants to go out with me, but it's like a two-pronged deal because she wants to blog the date. And I'm like, No! I don't want to be on a reality show.

Judah Friedlander

#6. Kyle saw them as a double-pronged problem: the ship that would not heed his wishes because of a boy that would not be what his father commanded him to be.

Robin Hobb

#7. Apparently the Ministerium Tenebrae had decided to conquer the region using the unusual twin-pronged attack of zombies and avant-garde artwork.

Jonathan L. Howard

#8. It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Dave Eggers

#9. I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent.

John Marsden

#10. Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#11. What ever you create today will become a seed for your future and it could be the harvest of the years to come [you reap what you sow].

Euginia Herlihy

#12. If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

Gautama Buddha

#13. War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#14. I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful.

Angela Bassett

#15. ... I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.

Orson Scott Card

#16. Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

#17. You can't look prim and righteous wearing a microscopic miniskirt and mile-high heels. Well it's pretty hard, anyway.

Meg Cabot

#18. For a long time, she wept, not so much for him and not at all for herself, but for the condition of all things and for the way the world could be but is not.

Dean Koontz