Daniel Quinn quote: "I pray about teeth-doesn't everyone? I don't have time to floss. You know. Hang in there, I tell them; I'll get around to it before it's too late."

The story the Leavers have been enacting for the past three million years isn’t a story of conques...
DANIEL QUINN

The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desper...
DANIEL QUINN

And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of ...
DANIEL QUINN

It’s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It’s seeing all those sunsets...
DANIEL QUINN

We made it back to the airport without getting mugged, stoned, shot at, pounced on, bombed, shelled,...
DANIEL QUINN

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is...
DANIEL QUINN

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord wit...
DANIEL QUINN

You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the wor...
DANIEL QUINN

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a she...
DANIEL QUINN

The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desper...
DANIEL QUINN

Its the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. Its seeing all those sunsets t...
DANIEL QUINN

The story the Leavers have been enacting for the past three million years isnt a story of conquest...
DANIEL QUINN

Wherever you go..., you'll see Heaven and Hell on every side... in us. Look for them and you'...
DANIEL QUINN

There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural ...
DANIEL QUINN

Blessed are those who do whatever they can wherever they are, for no one is devoid of resources or o...
DANIEL QUINN

Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what y...
DANIEL QUINN

Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species ca...
DANIEL QUINN

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in ...
DANIEL QUINN

A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gath...
DANIEL QUINN

The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the...
DANIEL QUINN

Because the tribe is its members, the tribe is what its members want it to be—nothing more and not...
DANIEL QUINN

[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and...
DANIEL QUINN

This is considered almost holy work by farmers and ranchers. Kill off everything you can't eat. Kill...
DANIEL QUINN

But charisma only wins people’s attention. Once you have their attention, you have to have somethi...
DANIEL QUINN

The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and d...
DANIEL QUINN

The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding respo...
DANIEL QUINN

It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets tha...
DANIEL QUINN

We've been together 32 years and married for 27.
SALLY QUINN

We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
SALLY QUINN

This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.
SALLY QUINN

Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came ...
SALLY QUINN

It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.
SALLY QUINN

I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying them...
SALLY QUINN

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.
SALLY QUINN

Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protoco...
SALLY QUINN

Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from th...
SALLY QUINN

Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week i...
SALLY QUINN

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels...
SALLY QUINN

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of th...
SALLY QUINN

Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I ...
SALLY QUINN

I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Sec...
SALLY QUINN

I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
SALLY QUINN

The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting pe...
SALLY QUINN

Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to s...
SALLY QUINN

The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
SALLY QUINN

It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangel...
SALLY QUINN

Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.
AIDAN QUINN

My mom had done some TV and commercials before I was born, and so when I was born, she knew I had a ...
QUINN SHEPHARD

I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.
QUINN SHEPHARD

The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only ...
QUINN SHEPHARD

I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobb...
PAT QUINN

I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not poli...
PAT QUINN

I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be t...
PAT QUINN

to work with the best material that is offered to me at a time when I need to work, and with the bes...
AIDAN QUINN

I don't get any parts I don't get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to ...
AIDAN QUINN

It's a kind of star-crossed 'Romeo and Juliet'-type love story, where these two were desperately in ...
AIDAN QUINN

Paul would be laughing with extras and saying, 'Yes, and then we could do that,' and, 'Let's try thi...
AIDAN QUINN

Paul sometimes would be a little bit annoying to me, because I'd be behind the camera on a scene I w...
AIDAN QUINN

To get to do something as rich as this story and this part, with my two brothers and my sister -- yo...
AIDAN QUINN

This Is My Father
AIDAN QUINN

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't liv...
AIDAN QUINN

I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever...
AIDAN QUINN

I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't s...
AIDAN QUINN

I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
DAN QUINN

I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuanc...
FRANCESCO QUINN

There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
FRANCESCO QUINN

I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that...
FRANCESCO QUINN

I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the ...
FRANCESCO QUINN

What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experi...
FRANCESCO QUINN

Bike lanes are clearly controversial. And one of the problems with bike lanes - and I'm generall...
CHRISTINE QUINN

When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
DAN QUINN

You love for a quarterback to sometimes make the decision as the rush is coming and make the decisio...
DAN QUINN

I think it's important that we go through everything together as a team.
DAN QUINN

We want to let our play be the judges.
DAN QUINN

The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
DAN QUINN

I've been around some really good guys from different teams.
DAN QUINN

For me, trying to connect our team together is so important. I know we'll play really well when ...
DAN QUINN

As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.
DAN QUINN

Part of what we talk about is, toughness is a talent.
DAN QUINN

I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one anot...
DAN QUINN

As far as the fouls go, we are not going to rely on anyone else to make the calls for us.
DAN QUINN

When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.
DAN QUINN

Each game we play, every game is a championship-game mindset.
DAN QUINN

We want to play a really physical style ball, and so, for us tackling, we know we are shoulder-based...
DAN QUINN

Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along t...
DAN QUINN

Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.
DAN QUINN

One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharp...
DAN QUINN

That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
DAN QUINN

What we can control is our readiness.
DAN QUINN

It's that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: 'Trust your training, trust ...
DAN QUINN

The term we use on our team is 'reset': when you go through, whether it's a negative pla...
DAN QUINN

I think, No. 1, I still have a long way to go.
DAN QUINN

Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.
JULIA QUINN

I am asking you to marry me because I love you,” he said, “because I cannot imagine living my li...
JULIA QUINN

There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not ...
JULIA QUINN

The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have sa...
ARTHUR QUINN

Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.
ARTHUR QUINN

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions ...
ARTHUR QUINN

In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
ANTHONY QUINN

I think it's a little easier for kids to digest than the Warped Tour. There aren't 80 bands playing ...
QUINN ALLMAN

God is just a concept, but music is tangible.
QUINN ALLMAN

[The group did well enough on Warped that tour founder Kevin Lyman asked them to headline the inaugu...
QUINN ALLMAN

We're all super-fuckin' good with each other. Everyone's more comfortable with what's happening, has...
QUINN ALLMAN

When it comes down to it, you don't need all of that shit. You just need to get out there and play.
QUINN ALLMAN

Mormons think they live in their own world, ... and that Utah's this place where it's supposed to be...
QUINN ALLMAN

It's not so much where you're at as who you're with.
QUINN ALLMAN

I do worry about Bert, I'll tell you that,
QUINN ALLMAN

I hardly ever drink. I've just been more into... you know, it's just how it goes. I don't do shit an...
QUINN ALLMAN

We kind of had to learn in reverse,
QUINN ALLMAN

And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.
JULIA QUINN

Adrian Clayborn is somebody that relentlessly brings that attitude, energy, and toughness.
DAN QUINN

I've lived an amazing life. There's no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in ra...
FRANCESCO QUINN

If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I t...
CHRISTINE QUINN

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist...
CHRISTINE QUINN

The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperb...
CHRISTINE QUINN

We talk about toughness as a quarterback: it's not sometimes the physical part that you see; it&...
DAN QUINN

The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's mov...
DAN QUINN

I have a 4-year-old and a 14-year-old, and think I missed a recital and a graduation, and they were ...
KIMBERLY QUINN

I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown th...
SEAN QUINN

Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet ...
JULIA QUINN

People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a la...
CHRISTINE QUINN

As soon as I did, everything, the whole room, just clicked.
GLENN QUINN

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just ...
MARTHA QUINN

In retrospect, I'm sure he wishes he hadn't gone to see her.
ANDREW QUINN

He met her in furtherance of his police duties. There was no sex. Nothing that looks like sex, nothi...
ANDREW QUINN

We're trying to let as many fraternities and fraternity men know ... what happened and the steps we ...
ANDREW QUINN

What happened was irresponsible. Every member of the fraternity understands that and takes this very...
ANDREW QUINN

It's an extraordinary building. Everybody who sees it is wowed.
ANGIE QUINN

Downtown has for the most part been able to retain the important buildings in recent years, but we'r...
ANGIE QUINN

This building is kind of fun because Fort Wayne doesn't have a lot of mission-revival buildings.
ANGIE QUINN

I must have walked 30 or 40 people through this building in the four years it's been for sale. Peopl...
ANGIE QUINN

The only place you'll be escorting me is to the vet so you can have the foot I'm going to shove up y...
QUINN LOFTIS

Fine, but if you get yourself killed I reserve the right to flush your ashes down the toilet while I...
QUINN LOFTIS

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the ...
ANTHONY QUINN

There is no greater torture than being forced to watch as your love, your reason for living, breathi...
QUINN LOFTIS

First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I m...
ANTHONY QUINN

Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. A...
ANTHONY QUINN

And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.
ANTHONY QUINN

And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of bein...
ANTHONY QUINN

No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.
ANTHONY QUINN

He kicked the heck out of me,
ANTHONY QUINN

[Quinn portrayed characters including kings, Indians, a pope, a boxer and an artist.] I never get th...
ANTHONY QUINN

I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.
ANTHONY QUINN

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience
ANTHONY QUINN

Yes, I am scared of prison. It's the last thing if you are after building up a business over 38 ...
SEAN QUINN

My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go ...
CHRISTINE QUINN

You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but...
COLIN QUINN

When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you...
COLIN QUINN

Number one, from a tackling standpoint, we teach strike zone hits, and we want to hit absolutely as ...
DAN QUINN

I did one pageant in sixth grade, and I loved it! I loved the dresses and the big hair.
MOLLY QUINN

I try to not think too much about how stuff gets seen as it's being done by a woman. Because if ...
CHRISTINE QUINN

I hope there is nothing about me that people have a big problem with. You know, I like to think of m...
CHRISTINE QUINN

I’m not trying to impress you,” he replied, glancing up at the front of the room. “Gads,” he...
JULIA QUINN

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't...
COLIN QUINN

In college, I was a researcher/writer for 'Let's Go: Europe,' assigned to Crete and Cypr...
JULIA QUINN

Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are imp...
KIMBERLY QUINN

A combination of growth in the areas of high market activity and consolidation of our position in th...
BRIAN QUINN

Mike's deep agency and automotive-account background will be invaluable to Dow Jones Online as we op...
BRIAN QUINN

Turnover was down for the first time in 10 years, with sales of merchandise, in particular, falling ...
BRIAN QUINN

On the face of it, last year marked a pause in a remarkable run of success enjoyed by Celtic in rece...
BRIAN QUINN

He has proved himself one of the great Celtic managers, and his place in the history of the club is ...
BRIAN QUINN

Our performance on the football field was mixed [last season]. The team again participated in the Ch...
BRIAN QUINN

The business must be based on the success of our football team,
BRIAN QUINN

I believe there has been somewhat better news in recent times [on his wife's health]. I think he [O'...
BRIAN QUINN

There are still pockets of areas that are still having problems getting vaccine. The (Centers for Di...
BRIAN QUINN

Over a five-year period we see an average of one to two cases a year, so statistically speaking, fiv...
BRIAN QUINN

But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.
CALLA QUINN

We feel as if we are by far the best team in the tournament. Last year the tournament was tainted, a...
BRADY QUINN

There is no question that Coach Weis sets the bar high. But he has been very sensitive to the pace a...
BRADY QUINN

It's obviously a lot more comfortable when you're calling the plays down on the field. I can come up...
BRADY QUINN

It feels good, that's the way it should be. But numbers are just numbers and I'm just happy we won. ...
BRADY QUINN

He's in Hollywood, that's where all the big entertainment is, so obviously that's going to be part o...
BRADY QUINN

Our only goal was to keep putting points on the board.
BRADY QUINN

Obviously statistics will be kept and you want to get closer to perfect. But when it comes down to i...
BRADY QUINN

I think that sent a message to start the game like that,
BRADY QUINN

When they cut it to five, I think it was expressed across the sideline that we need to stop messing ...
BRADY QUINN

Looking back to the season prior when we beat Michigan State, I don't think you saw any of our playe...
BRADY QUINN

From what I've read and seen ? and given this gut feeling that I have ? I think it's the right direc...
BOB QUINN

There is a definite sense of frustration with the failure of parks to really constructively engage n...
BOB QUINN

By making my own fuel, I can have a stable price and use my own resources in the process. I'm workin...
BOB QUINN

Now the rails have become a parking lot. That's one step better than having it taken out. But only o...
BOB QUINN

At this point in my life, I'm not going to spend a lot of time focusing on dissatisfaction with ...
CHRISTINE QUINN

The vast majority of debt that Anglo maintains is owed is strenuously disputed. However, I cannot no...
SEAN QUINN

I think what happens when there's a scandal in your life, the things you depended on are taken a...
KIMBERLY QUINN

I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fal...
CHRISTINE QUINN

Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, r...
CHRISTINE QUINN

Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to upho...
CHRISTINE QUINN

Sleep is death without the consequence.
DIANA QUINN

It's only through sheer force and luck that she's yet to take over the world.
JULIA QUINN

Whether they hail from different cultures, countries or faiths, children are children.
KIMBERLY QUINN

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.
COLIN QUINN

When I end up yelling, it's not really deliberate. It's usually out of some moment of passio...
CHRISTINE QUINN

Oh, God, Francesca,Now there’s a good one.Why?Why? Why?” He gave each one a different tenor, as ...
JULIA QUINN

His mouth captured hers, trying to show her with his kiss what he was still learning to express in w...
JULIA QUINN

The general public doesn't expect romance authors to be Harvard graduates. Which is funny, becau...
JULIA QUINN

We're not Seattle East. We're our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned fro...
DAN QUINN

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty...
COLIN QUINN

I was a fan of his as a young player; you know, Doug Harvey and him used to be a great pair on the M...
PAT QUINN

I started off in 1993 with one lorry. I wasn't one of those guys buying a business and gearing i...
SEAN QUINN

I pray about teeth-doesn't everyone? I don't have time to floss. You know. Hang in there, I tell them; I'll get around to it before it's too late.

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I pray about teeth-doesn't everyone? I don't have time to floss. You know. Hang in there, I tell them; I'll get around to it before it's too late.

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