"You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer."

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Jim Butcher

#Gun Quotes #America Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.”
“I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.”
“Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.”

Source : Giannina Braschi, Tess O'Dwyer (1994). “Empire of Dreams”, p.213, Yale University Press
“A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.”
“The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution.”
“Trials show us where we are and where we need to grow. Dont run from them, grow from them.”
“Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality,”
“Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down... There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical.”

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