Scrimshaw Quotes

#1. It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Seneca The Younger

#2. You fought fair. If the other guy wants to fight and you knocked him out, you did your best for him. You didn't want to hurt him any more.

Jack Kirby

#3. They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade

Poppy Z. Brite

#4. If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

Jesse Ventura

#5. I just said to myself, 'Damn, I'm a great player.'

Shaquille O'Neal

#6. Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

Archibald Primrose

#7. Oh come now. It's no fun if you don't know why I'm gutting you when I'm gutting you. Think!

Kelly Creagh

#8. I'm not saying it's cold but that brass monkey over there is looking really worried.

Glenn Scrimshaw

#9. You know when I say that things happen in matches? Well, it just happened there.

Ron Atkinson

#10. You can't always wait for someone else to do the right thing when you can do it yourself.

Mariana Zapata

#11. The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

Cynthia Ozick

#12. The fight against capitalism has many aspects, particularly the distinctive economic models that concentrate the capital in few hands.

Evo Morales

#13. If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

Anne Lamott

#14. ...Maude Harris told me that all was well with the world because medical science had profited by the war. That is an epitome of civilization. We continually invent new diseases and almost catch up with them by our invention of remedies.

Joe Gould

#15. I think as far as I've been able to understand from my friends that I went to college with and things like that is that it almost seems like Russian Roulette when you're coming out of the closet to your parents.

Jason Ritter

#16. Your grandma was a slave once upon a time make her feel free

Martellis Thurmand

#17. Without freedom there can be no morality.

Carl Jung