400s162 54 Quotes & Sayings

Your deeds are your monuments. — R.J. Palacio

Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury. — Epicurus

This, reader, is an honest book ... I want to appear in my simple, natural and everyday dress, without strain or artifice; for it is myself that I portray — Michel De Montaigne

The memories still seemed to haunt me at a moment's notice. — Cambria Hebert

Look," Six snaps, "we can't just stand around gabbing. They could be co - "
Six is cut off by the sudden roar of a noise overhead. It's a sound made by no earthly machinery. We all look up just as the silver Mogadorian ship throws on its floodlights, momentarily blinding us. Five, shielding his eyes, turns to look at me.
"Is that your ship?" he asks.
"Mogadorians!" I shout at him. Already, dark shapes are descending from the ship, the first wave of Mogadorian warriors on their way to attack.
"Oh," says Five, blinking confusedly at the ship. "So that's what they look like. — Pittacus Lore

the partition was rolled up for ventilation, and she was lying in her hammock reading one of the books Vernon had brought, a thriller called utopia. — Douglas Preston

None of the Asian countries that have moved closer to the developed countries of the West in recent years has benefited from large foreign investments, whether it be Japan, South Korea, or Taiwan and more recently China. In essence, all of these countries themselves financed the necessary investments in physical capital and, even more, in human capital, which the latest research holds to be the key to long-term growth.35 Conversely, countries owned by other countries, whether in the colonial period or in Africa today, have been less successful, most notably because they have tended to specialize in areas without much prospect of future development and because they have been subject to chronic political instability. — Thomas Piketty

Being alone does not make you crazy, it reminds you of who you are. — E.J. Koh

My mind's screaming went unvoiced. Logic grabbed the panic and wrestled it to the ground. — Maria V. Snyder

You should have seen his face when I started taking my clothes off. Priceless. — Stephenie Meyer

There is about world-class athletes carving out exemptions from physical laws a transcendent beauty that makes manifest God in man. — David Foster Wallace