109 quotes found
“I wonder how long it takes for these people we elect to forget who they work for?”
“What kind of country has this become? Decent people cant do anything without being watched.”
“It must be great to spend time in a spot and if you walk away, its so much better than before because of something you did.”
“Everybody dies. It’s no risk to lose your life. You knew it was lost from the beginning.”
“The world bein’ so small ain’t always a good thing for those of us who ain’t searchin’ for new and different stuff.”
“One of the worst things I’ve learned about getting older is that there seems to be more change that you don’t like than there was when you were younger and you can’t do nothin’ about it.”
“The gear teeth of his mind, the cogs of the brain’s machinery that propelled his thoughts, were grinding to a halt, too long forced to fight against the friction of agony without the aid of hope, t...”
“If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you’ve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.”
“Does the plain, simple beauty of life get buried under society’s so-called required daily activities or is that just true of me? No, I know I’m not alone in that feeling. We all get caught up in th...”
“Just make sure the day doesn’t pass without sayin’ what’s in your heart. Sometimes you pass up those chances and they’re gone forever.”
“I can’t tell you what’s in all of God’s plans, but I do know part of them. He empowers you with reason and will. Those are your strengths. That’s what gives you the chance to be great in his sight....”
“It’s a funny thing, one day you’re living and the next day you’re not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don’t even know if I would w...”
“I wonder if God hears prayers if the only time you make them is when you’re in trouble.”
“It’s as close to true freedom as I have come. Not freedom of, but freedom from; freedom from the debris of life that piles up and forces us to dig and dig for our original self, who we were once up...”
“Evil won’t leave you alone until you take a stand or until you’re dead.”
“Evil stinks and it doesn’t disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed.”
“We learn to love when we’re young. If we learn hating better, it has to go somewhere. We can hate ourselves or we can hate somebody else. Most people would rather hate somebody else.”
“I don’t know how a reporter would ever understand a politician. Your job is supposed to be about finding the truth and enlightening people. Right? A politician’s job is about hiding the truth and f...”
“How do we keep convincing young people to die in fights they didn’t start for reasons we’re too devious to tell the truth about? It’s way too easy for governments to spend other people’s blood. May...”
“People don’t die so the universe can gauge your reaction. They die because life is finite.”
