"Well, you won't unless you come to lunch with me," Cal said. "I'm holding it for ransom. There's a gun to its heel right now." "I have lunch at my desk," Min began, and thought,Oh, for crying out loud, could I beany more pathetic ? "Emilio is experimenting with a lunch menu. He needs you. I need you."

-- Jennifer Crusie

#Gun Quotes #Lunch Quotes #Ransom Quotes

“I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.”

Source : "Rain Still Follows Him: The President's Vermont Trip Marked by Storms". Speech in Rutland, Vermont, reported in The New York Times, August 29, 1891 issue p. 5,
“My role is to remind people that everyday people can make a difference. And if we get people out there doing things to make America a better place, we can bring change.”
“The TV Tropes QC page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document.”

Source : Call Out Boy‏ @jephjacques, twitter.com. September 4, 2009.
“The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1988). “The accursed share: an essay on general economy”, Zone Books (NY)
“Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they ought to be, and are not. Whoso seeks to follow this ideal revealed to the mental vision, whoso seeks to attain to conformity with it, will find it enlarge itself, and remove from him. He that follows it will improve his own moral character, but the ideal will remain always above him and before him, prompting him to new exertions.”

Source : William Batchelder Greene (1872). “The blazing star; with an appendix treating of the Jewish Kabbala, also a tract on the philosophy of H. Spencer, and one on New-England transcendentalism”, p.3
“As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.”

Source : Christopher Dawson (2011). “The Judgment of the Nations”, p.9, CUA Press
“Kuwait is the mother and father, Earth and it's supplies. She is the past, present and future.”
“We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes."”

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