28277 Quotes & Sayings

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think. — Adolf Eichmann

I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies. — Sutton Foster

Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them? — Eric Heiden

Foster always said that education was very important, but that it didn't really matter, because intelligence was more important than that, and that even intelligence didn't count for so much, that wisdom was far more important still. He said he had no idea in the world whether you had education or intelligence or wisdom and that it couldn't matter less, a blind man could see that you had a good heart, and the good heart was all that mattered in this world. — Alistair MacLean

My forties are the best time I have ever gone through. — Elizabeth Taylor

I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room. — Hayley Mills

I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity. — Federico Fellini

People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past. — Daniel Pauly

The great thing about family, Mary mused, was that they showed up. When it really mattered, your family, be they blood or by choice, were always where you needed them to be, even though they had busy lives and jobs and children of their own. — J.R. Ward

You know that when a group of utility workers are withholding their customer service identification cards, they are likely engaging in some form of illegal activity at your home. — Steven Magee

You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures. — Josephine Humphreys

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose. — Louis Leakey

Let me help you." Roarke bent down, lifted Rockman by the lapels. He jerked the man up, steadied him. "Look at me, Rockman. Vision clear?"
Rockman blinked blood out of his eyes. "I can see you."
"Good." Roarke's arm shot up, quick as a bullet, and his fist connected with Rockman's already battered face.
"Oops," Feeney said mildly, when Rockman crumbled to the floor again. — J.D. Robb

We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear. — Jim Rohn