quotes about Stinginess

“Lives should never be down to mere words, but I suppose they always are. Whether declarations of war, law, or treaty... words ever determine lives.”

“When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there's usually less resistance within you than when you talk about what you want and how you're going to get it. When you pose questions you don't have answers for, like how, where, when, who, it sets up a contradictory vibration that slows everything down.”

“President Obama filled in as the coach of his daughter Sasha's basketball team. Sasha evidently listened to her Dad, because all she did was drive straight down the center and piss everyone off.”

“I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.”

“We both know the limits of this relationship. It's understood. And as long as we're both comfortablewith that, nobody get's hurt. It's basic.' ~Oliva, pg 374”

“Don't knock rationalization.  Where would we be without it?  I don't know anyone who'd get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations.  They're more important than sex.  Have you ever gone a week without a rationalization?”

“I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.”

Source : Yasser Arafat's UN General Assembly speech, November 13, 1974.

“A hero is someone we can admire without apology.”

“The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though.”

Source : "Voyage Across the Stars".

“Once I saw Paris Hilton leaving a restaurant in Hollywood and the paparazzi cameras were all over her. It looked so unpleasant. It wasn't because she didn't look sensational - she was that perfect combination of fashionable and slutty - it was because the paparazzi guys were shouting these insanely rude and intrusive questions at her. Like, asking her who she was sleeping with and stuff. I was kind of interested in the answer, so I was glad they asked, but it was still gross.”