Quotes About Backing The Wrong Horse

#1. Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

Rose Wilder Lane

#2. Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

George Papandreou

#3. At present our only true names are nicknames.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. In the Middle Ages, as in antiquity, they read usually, not as today, principally with the eyes, but with the lips, pronouncing what they saw, and with the ears, listening to the words pronounced. hearing what is called the "voices of the pages." It is a real acoustical reading.

Jean Leclercq

#5. Supernova explosions could have generated the necessary heat to create the heavy elements that led to the formation of rocky planets and, eventually, us. (credit

Bill Bryson

#6. Today, man has been mired in invalidness up to such an extent, that being suspicious about reality isn't in his hand.

M.H. Rakib

#7. I'm completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path.

Joe Anderson

#8. He taught me that the whole world was a holy place. That's why he loved our old farm, loved the dirt under his feet. Everything was magic to him.

Lena Coakley

#9. Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.

Aaron Allston

#10. To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

Alan Moore

#11. The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.

Jennifer Lawrence

#12. I wanted to pose myself both tasks - understanding and condemnation. But it was impossible to do both

Bernhard Schlink

#13. I reached to push my hair out of my eyes, finding someone had tied a knot it in. My face screwed up in anger as I realized it was a HAPA knot. Real funny.

Kim Harrison

#14. Bad Hagridmitch! Bad, bad Hagridmitch! What did I tell you about copyright laws? Do you want to get sued? Is that what you want?

Bratniss Everclean

#15. I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.

Hugh Hefner