A Quotes
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“Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.”
“Anyone that will make a difference would have to put others ahead of them; put others first.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.”
“Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish it would.”
“Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.”
“Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength.”
Source: The Brothers K
“Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.”
“Anyone under the age of 65 that has private health insurance is not the true customer in American healthcare. Large and small group employers are.”
Source: What the U.S. Healthcare System Doesn't Want You to Know, Why, and How You Can Do Something About It
“Anyone unique with their desires sky high, intentions so pure, and a will to achieve greatness would have their Master watching over them”
Source: Life of a Sunset Kid
“Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?”
“Anyone wanna play Dungeons & Dragons for the next quadrillion years?”
“Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.”
Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: .. Karl Marx: Capital vol.II
“Anyone wanting to proclaim the glory of Christ to the ends of the earth must consider not only how to declare the gospel verbally but also how to demonstrate the gospel visibly in a world where so many are urgently hungry. If I am going to address urgent spriitual need by sharing the gospel of Christ or building up the body of Christ around the world, then I cannot overlook dire physical need in the process.”
“Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She's the boss; Liz Lemon just works here.”
“Anyone watching her would have thought her cold, indifferent, but this was the only way she knew to tackle her deepest troubles, to shoo them aside as if they were a cloud of summer gnats, and deal with the task at hand brusquely and efficiently. Hannah always thought of it as her mother's Englishness, that ability to equalize problems so that a scuffed shoe and an impending disaster were almost equally distasteful, but both were born with aplomb.”
Source: Love by the Morning Star
“Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.”
“Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely Commander in Chief - a critical test for many Americans.”
“Anyone who abandon’s their children should be hung, by their toenails while awaiting flesh eating ants or some other painful flesh eating hungry creature to consume them. Slowly and painfully…”
Source: Wicked Fairy Tales: The Curvy Collection
“Anyone who accepts Jesus into his heart and believes Him always becomes great”
“Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.”
“Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.”
“Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.”
“Anyone who ain't family is opposition”
“Anyone who appears to be triggered out of watchfulness and into action by your appearance must be explained. Anyone observing you carefully must be explained. Anyone whose behavior seems to be geared to yours must be explained. If the explanation does not satisfy you, be ready to take appropriate defensive action.”
Source: Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition
“Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high meetings together, Christians thus could not keep their own disagreements within the bounds of civil language; their continual quarrels required the intervention of the civil authorities; and all this was well known and noted by friends and foes alike.”
“Anyone who assesses you or your relationship as disposable is not worthy of your time or tears.”
Source: It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy
“Anyone who attacks individual charity, attacks human nature and casts contempt on personal dignity.”
Source: The Idiot
“Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule.”
“Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.”
Source: The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All
“Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.”
“Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.”
“Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.”
“Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it; for such a city may always justify rebellion in the name of liberty and its ancient institutions.”
“Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career in sales, but avoid one in mathematics.”
“Anyone who believes a word anyone says in bed deserves what she gets.”
Source: Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
“Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let goof the earth.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”
“Anyone who believes he is bigger than the system is wrong.”
“Anyone who believes in a Jesus who condones abortion does not believe in the real Jesus, and therefore is not Christian.”
“Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot”
Source: Banksy: wall and piece
“Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist”
“Anyone who believes in the natural and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is obliged to accept that individuals have the right to buy and sell alcohol. That's why all the regulations that people take for granted-the restrictions on hours of operation, the ban on Sunday sales, the minimum distance from schools and churches, the minimum age, and the protection of local wineries from competition by wineries in other states-are illegitimate.”
“Anyone who believes mythology is fiction does not understand mythology.”
Source: Deities & Dragons
“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.”
Source: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Anyone who believes that men and women have the same mind-set hasn't lived on earth. A man thinks that everything he does is wonderful, that the sun rises and sets around him. But a woman has doubts.”
“Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present.”
“Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.”
“Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).”
Source: Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture
“Anyone who believes that we can afford collectively what we cannot afford individually is delusional.”
Source: Learning Economics
“Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.”