Wesley > Wesley's Quotes

“You have exactly one life in which to do everything you’ll ever do. Act accordingly.”
― Colin Wright

“Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.”
― Mike Rosen

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!”
― Harry S. Truman

“If life gives you lemonade- make lemons and life will be all like "whaaaaat?”
― Phil Dunphy

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“The most amazing things that can happen to a human being will happen to you, if you just lower your expectations.”
― Phil Dunphy

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
― Ayn Rand

“We all live and die for the stories and the sounds. Sometimes we find them, other times they just happen upon us. We don’t always get a choice.”
― Bob Mould, See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody

“I always say the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone”
― Mike Dirnt

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The ones who love us best are the ones we'll lay to rest
And visit their graves on holidays at best
The ones who love us least are the ones we'll die to please
If it's any consolation, I don't begin to understand them”
― Paul Westerberg

“Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above expectation. People like Iggy, Lou Reed, Jerry Lee Lewis, Black Sabbath, Nick Cave, Hubert Selby Jr, Billy Gibbons, Al Pacino, John Lee Hooker, James Brown, Johnny Cash etc. have been really great to me. What strikes me is most of the time, the bigger the celeb/legend, the more polite and cool they are. It's the insecure ones who treat you like they're doing you a favor by shaking your hand.”
― Henry Rollins

“I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

“Pentagon ought to win the Nobel Peace Prize every year, because the U.S. military is the world’s foremost guarantor of peace”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”
― Margaret Thatcher

“When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
― Truman Capote, Answered Prayers

“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
― Frederick Douglass, Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

“I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.”
― Marilynne Robinson

“I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.”
― Jonathan Carroll, Bones of the Moon

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A guy can love a million women. But a man, a man loves one woman a million ways.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Orphan X

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“It was not possible to reason with unreasonable people”
― Vince Flynn, Executive Power

“California is like a Nazi state with palm trees”
― John Sandford, Golden Prey

“A woman is who she is, not what she looks like.”
― Charlie Cole, Headhunters

“Why is it that so many free people don’t know shit about freedom?”
― Lee Broad, The Masada Protocol