Spratt Quotes

#1. DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: "Remember, m'boy," his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, "that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand up straight and say to yourself in an imperious air, 'I am the new Mrs. de Winter now!' You'll find it works wonders.

Jasper Fforde

#2. This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.

John Spratt

#3. Oh yes," said Nanny Piggins. "I can regale people with anecdotes from my sordid past and think at the same time.

R.A. Spratt

#4. I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.

Mike Tyson

#5. I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we are taking the tab for defense in our time against terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere and shoving this tab off onto our children.

John Spratt

#6. People regularly misinterpret what I say, the question is whether that's something I ought to worry about or not!

Jeff Garcia

#7. We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.

John Spratt

#8. I seem to vaguely remember a time when America had confidence. And guts. And soldiers fighting a war didn't need to be given "permission" to defend themselves from enemies trying to kill them.

Charles Foster Johnson

#9. We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers.

John Spratt

#10. Derrick, Samantha, and Michael were all very good at avoiding being murdered. Nanny Piggins considered this to be one of the most important life skills.

R.A. Spratt

#11. Experience has taught me that it is always better to be well rested than to know what you are doing - Nanny Piggins

R.A. Spratt

#12. Nanny Piggins lost the Vegetable Peeling, Gutter Cleaning, and Long Division Explaining tests as well. She got caught telling Michael, 'Don't bother to learn that. Long division is a waste of brain space, when you can just buy a calculator.' Which is only the truth.

R.A. Spratt

#13. And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission?

John Spratt

#14. Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#15. She crept around the house listening for breathing, chocolate eating, breaking porcelain, or any of the other peculiar little noises children make.

R.A. Spratt

#16. Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country.

John Spratt

#17. What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt.

John Spratt

#18. We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.

John Spratt

#19. With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?'

Brooklyn Decker

#20. I absolutely refuse to let those people at the motor registry take my photograph. Their lighting set-up is terrible. They seem to take cruel delight in making everyone look like they've been dead for six months.

R.A. Spratt

#21. We may indeed assume, with a high degree of probability, that Jane Austen went commando.

Margaret C. Sullivan

#22. chocolate is a dairy food; nanny piggins

R.A. Spratt

#23. We also want to leave our own area behind, our domestic world so well regulated day to day; we are drawn by the desire no longer to be at home and therefore no longer to be ourselves. We want to interrupt a life where we merely exist, in order to live more.

Stefan Zweig

#24. Samantha, what have I told you?' demanded Mr. Green.

'That I should be seen, and not heard, until I turn eighteen. When I can say 'Good-bye, I'm returning my key' before moving out of home.' chanted Samantha.

R.A. Spratt

#25. What is life, in the end, but a series of small victories and larger failures?

Guillermo Del Toro

#26. Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.

Edward Norton

#27. Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.

John Spratt

#28. You will be the one chosen to reach out to embrace man once again as the heart. So that all will be as it should. 'Fatu-ma-le-ele-ele' You will give your fire so that Man may live. And he will give his heart so that earth may live.
Thus it has been spoken.

Lani Wendt Young

#29. The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush.

John Spratt

#30. I'm not against paying at all. What I'm against is the complexity of paying. And you very often go to a website and you try to click on something and sometimes it will even say it's free, but you have to fill out this form.

Nicholas Negroponte

#31. You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

Ellen DeGeneres

#32. Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.

John Spratt

#33. Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.

John Spratt

#34. As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.

John Spratt

#35. With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison.

John Spratt

#36. Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.

John Spratt

#37. Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel.

John Spratt

#38. Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.

John Spratt

#39. We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.

John Spratt

#40. It sounds like a terrible idea," said Friday. "But that doesn't mean it won't work.

R.A. Spratt

#41. Don't worry, I'm still earthbound,' Friday called down. 'But I've found something!' 'What?' asked Melanie. 'It's a flying fox!' said Friday. 'Don't touch it!' said Melanie. 'It might bite you.

R.A. Spratt

#42. Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.

Bill Johnson

#43. I don't believe in people's kindness, it is just the matter of interest

M.F. Moonzajer