“If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?”

— Joe Namath

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American football player 1943

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

“Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?”

Black Kettle (1803–1868) Leader of the Southern Cheyenne

Source: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970), p. 148
Context: We were once friends with the whites, but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other. Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?

“One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan.”

Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist

“Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Source: The Complete Short Stories

“Why aren't we letting ISIS go and fight Assad and then we pick up the remnants?”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Interview in 60 Minutes http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-60-minutes-scott-pelley/, 2015-09-27
Cited by Mitt Romney in Business Insider http://uk.businessinsider.com/mitt-romney-donald-trump-isis-60-minutes-ridiculous-2016-3?r=US&IR=T, 2016-03-03
2010s, 2015

“Increasingly it seems facts aren't necessary, because the tenets of environmentalism are all about belief. It's about whether you are going to be a sinner, or saved. Whether you are going to be one of the people on the side of salvation, or on the side of doom. Whether you are going to be one of us, or one of them.”

Michael Crichton (1942–2008) American author, screenwriter, film producer

Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)

“If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“I remember, you know, you go to these parties on Saturday night and people would say, about 8:00 on Sunday morning "Whoa, I have to go - I gotta get to church!" People would say, "Why do you want to go to church, all those hypocrites." And I say, "Look, why do I want to stay here with all you hypocrites?"I never knew why going to church made you a hypocrite. They'd say because you go to church and you're all "Holy, Holy, Holy" for two or three hours, and then you go home and sin. I'd say "exactly!" For two or three hours you're doing pretty good! Maybe the problem isn't that you go to church, maybe the problem is that you go home! I never understood why going to church made you a hypocrite either, because nobody goes to church because they're perfect. If you've got it all together, you don't need to go. You can go jogging with all the other perfect people on Sunday morning Every time you go to church, you're confessing again to yourself, to your family, to the people you pass on the way there, to the people who will greet you there, that you don't have it all together. And that you need their support. You need their direction. You need some accountability, you need some help.”

Rich Mullins (1955–1997) American christian musician

Anderson, Indiana http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/anderson-indiana-nov1695.html (November 16, 1995)
In Concert

“You're going to break my heart, aren't you?”

Christopher Moore book Bloodsucking Fiends

Source: Bloodsucking Fiends

“[Students] aren't what we ideally would like to see them. They are not independent and individualistic, but they do fit the needs of our emerging industrial society. … the employers will love this generation, that they are not going to press very many grievances, there won't be much trouble, they are going to do their jobs, they are going to be easy to handle. There aren't going to be riots. There aren't going to be revolutions. There aren't going to be many strikes.”

Clark Kerr (1911–2003) American academic

Margaret L. Habein (editor) (1959), Spotlight on the college student; a discussion by the Problems and Policies Committee of the American Council on Education. American Council on Education. pp 40-41

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