Symington Side Quotes

#1. My mother paid eight dollars a month for rent. When she had it. Mostly we were evicted, because she couldnt afford to pay the eight dollars a month.

Walter Matthau

#2. The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Plato

#3. Putting even one thing in your shopping basket that's locally produced or organic makes all the difference. It's a vote for the future, for animal welfare, for the environment, for your children's children.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#4. Technology breeds anarchy. It distributes these tools at random. And with them goes the provocation for violence. The ability to make and use savage destroyers falls inevitably into the hands of smaller and smaller groups until at last the group is a single individual. Moneo

Frank Herbert

#5. To think that God is compassionate is a terrible mistake. To think that God is wrathful is equally stupid. God isn't emotional. You are. To superimpose your emotions on infinity is typically human.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Jack and Stella rushed over to the edge just in time to see Charming disappearing into the reduction duality universe.

Simon J. Morley

#7. Life is an unknown deadline.

Ben Tolosa

#8. Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

Hulk Hogan

#9. When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and rely entirely on his help, we will be granted the most excellent gift of patience and through faith we may victoriously persevere to the end.

John Calvin

#10. I am too perfect for Evening," Adam volunteers. "But that's all right." He smiles shyly at Aislin. "I am not too perfect for Aislin.

Michael Grant

#11. I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor.

Harvey Pekar

#12. Our object should not be to have scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any sentiment may have become by being long entertained, so soon as it is seen to be contrary to the Bible, we must be prepared to abandon it without hesitation.

William Symington

#13. The dangers of an Afghan collapse are many: Afghan deaths, a loss of American prestige, a loss of NATO prestige, a moral blow to U.S. troops and veterans, a Taliban resurgence, huge setbacks for women, and greater power for Pakistan and Pakistani extremists.

Richard Engel

#14. The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss
a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.

E.B. White

#15. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literacy device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.

Ambrose Bierce