2730 S Quotes & Sayings

Maybe we always were the people we imagined ourselves to be. — Nina LaCour

It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand. — Joshua Reynolds

My mockingjay pin now lives with Cinna's outfit, but there's the gold locket and the silver parachute with the spile and Peeta's pearl. I knot the pearl into the corner of the parachute, bury it deep in the recesses of the bag, as if it's Peeta's life and no one can take it away as long as I guard it. — Suzanne Collins

I am now going to state three facts, which will startle a large class of readers on this side of the Atlantic, very much. Firstly, there is a joint-stock piano in a great many of the boarding-houses. Secondly, nearly all these young ladies subscribe to circulating libraries. Thirdly, they have got up among themselves a periodical called The Lowell Offering, 'A repository of original articles, written exclusively by females actively employed in the mills,' - which is duly printed, published, and sold; and whereof I brought away from Lowell four hundred good solid pages, which I have read from beginning to end. The large class of readers, startled by these facts, will exclaim, with one voice, 'How very preposterous!' On my deferentially inquiring why, they will answer, 'These things are above their station.' In reply to that objection, I would beg to ask what their station is. — Charles Dickens

It is not possible to keep abreast of the normal tides of acquisition. A home is like a reservoir equipped with a check valve: the valve permits influx but prevents outflow. — E.B. White

I study the Bible all week, pray to the Lord, and then I speak from my heart. It's all about brutal honesty. — Mark Driscoll

Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed — John Maynard Smith