Rick Larsen Quotes

My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce.

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• I was a boy toy for a bunch of women.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Women
  • Boy
  • Boys

• People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit.

  

  Mac Anderson
  • People
  • Power
  • Lit

• Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Persistence
  • Destination
  • Deviation

• The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Quality
  • Ideas
  • Modern

• The prosperity gospel and its purveyors are worldwide and account for the rapid growth of Pentecostalism, the global religious movement prosperity preachers come from.

  

  Anthea Butler
  • Growth
  • Gospel
  • Global

• There is a randomness to this ballet of death. This is the order of things. This is the secret to understanding the universe. Everything happens in an instant. Normalcy. And then apocalypse.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Secret
  • Apocalypse
  • Ballet Of Death

• Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Home
  • Night
  • Culture

• The best education in film is to make one

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Education
  • Film

• I have two kids in diapers and a cat whose litter box I clean out. I deal with an awful lot of crap.

  

  George W. Buck
  • Kids
  • Cat
  • Clean

• Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Writing
  • Commitment

• To accpet the world as boring or accept oneself as boring? Which is really more agreeable? There's bound to be some amount of ambiguity and uncertainty.

  

  Nisio Isin
  • World
  • Accept
  • Uncertainty

• Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't die, no matter what, or maybe they died a long time ago but Cecy calls, and Mother and Father call, and Grandmere who only whispers, and now they're coming and I'm nothing, not like them who pass through walls and live in trees or live underneath until seventeen-year rains flood them up and out, and the ones who run in packs, let me be the one! If they live forever, why not me?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Long
  • Father
  • Tree

• Money is the best rule of commerce.

  

  William Petty
  • Finance
  • Commerce

• Eliminate agencies that perform redundant functions... Get rid of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Energy
  • Education
  • Function

• Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Today
  • Action
  • Lying

• My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce.

  

  Rick Larsen
  • Commerce
  • Border
  • Northern