Siepe Pe Quotes

#1. It was an article of faith with NCOs [noncommissioned officers] that they were better than their officers. And they were usually right. Certainly I had been happy with mine. They had done plenty of good work for me.

Lee Child

#2. The war in Congo rages on with no end in sight," the announcer said. "And now comes word of a new campaign by the soldiers, to find the women they have already raped and re-rape them." "Holy Christ on a cross!" Mom said. "I draw the line at re-raping." And she turned off NPR.

Maria Semple

#3. I play a lot of characters where I don't even speak in my own voice. I learned about focus and I learned to trust that things can work when they're not heightened and that it's interesting when things are pared down.

Jenny Slate

#4. maybe somebody finally shot the dog.

Dave Barry

#5. Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?

George Carlin

#6. Sadly, most of us often prefer immediately gratifying short-term experiences over our long-term objectives.* We routinely behave as if sometime in the future, we will have more time, more money, and feel less tired or stressed.

Dan Ariely

#7. Losing is like knowing that, in the movie scene where a thousand die but the hero lives, you're one of the obliterated.

David Guterson

#8. Always imagine him close to you when you pray,' she explained. 'If you think of Him as near, then that's where you will find Him. And if you think of Him as far away, then that's where He will be.

Ayad Akhtar

#9. Man dreams that he is more than a leaf on a tree.'
-Leaves by Countee Cullen

Countee Cullen

#10. You don't make me feel like you used to.
That's why I'm leaving
That's why people leave each other
They come to their senses and get selfish again.

Henry Rollins

#11. It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Freeman Dyson