K.M. Randall Quotes

People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others.

If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.

The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.

When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in.

We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along...

Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.

If you want to put somebody down, analogize them to the n - - .

I'm carrying an iPhone 5. I like this device. It's been impressive. I have a Windows and an Android device... I carry an iPad. I carry a Kindle... Yeah, I have a lot of devices.

I would like to say that I helped out our men in uniform, but the truth is I probably just grumbled at the noise.

I've always thought that one of the the great thing about physics is that you can add more digits to any number and see what happens and nobody can stop you.

I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.

The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.

The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

I pretty much ate everything that I like and I've always wanted to eat and I just didn't hold myself back and it was the best.

People need their history like they need air and food.

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.

I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has one-fourth of those in prison.

Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.

For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.

I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's the worst American President of all time.

I think the business community knows that half the world's oil reserves are gone. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and now there's the scramble for what remains.

I've opposed black regimes and white regimes, leftist regimes and rightist regimes. I'm close to Aristide because I have respect for him, but all that is beside the point.

I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving. This is the most dangerous and disturbing time in my life.

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.

Heres the problem: Journalists just dont understand their business.

If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.

Let all those in government be warned: They cannot order people to pay for the murder of babies, and betray God Himself, without horrific consequences.

The Bible is the supreme law that all governments must obey.

What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?

George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.

I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.

Intolerance is a beautiful thing...There are people that are politically correct that want to say the cardinal sin of the hour is intolerance and I think that is a bunch of junk.

If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.

If the government of this country tramples the faith and values of its citizens, history will hold those in power responsible for the violent convulsions that follow.

Our problem in America is not with atheists or the pagans who are consistent with their unbelief, but with believers who are inconsistent with their belief.

The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.

It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.