475 Area Quotes & Sayings

Miss Pringle was not much larger than the handheld personal assistants of his own age, and usually lived, like the Old West's Colt 45, in a quick-draw holster at his waist. — Arthur C. Clarke

Who would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by her very guardians? And now her killers make mock of the sacred process, selling replicas of her blind virtue to the highest bidder. — Rohinton Mistry

Oh, life had been a lonely one, but she knew how to pass the time. — Tahereh Mafi

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap. — Ray Bradbury

Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies. — Mason Cooley

By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes! — Andrew Agnew

Sometimes it's more frightening to be the messenger of bad news than it is to simply avoid delivering the message at all. — Laury Falter

All too easily, we confuse the world as we symbolize it with the world as it is. As semanticist Alfred Korzybski used to say, it is an urgent necessity to distinguish between the map and the territory and, he might have added, between the flag and the country. — Alan W. Watts

Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them. — L'Wren Scott

I looked inside, compelled to stare, staining the image of a dead body into my memory. I did not deserve to look away. I had to know the awfulness of war; the wickedness of our species. — Jeffrey Sands

If you inspire one person each day, you're day hasn't been a waste. It's been a blessing. — Robin Sharma

The reason gold-diggers trivialize
relationships is because they do not know love,they only know money. — Moffat Machingura

I don't see that there is a credible threat for American action - the rhetoric of the U.S. President is too vague, very amorphous. I don't see that Obama's words will be translated into more tangible intentions and therefore this is probably why the Iranians don't take it seriously. They speak out against it and they dismiss it. — Tzachi Hanegbi

I don't know if it was the excitement that did it, but by the time we started our tiptoe across the icy, rutted skid yard to that shed Priya had quit shivering, but I was trembling like a marriage license in a young man's hand. — Elizabeth Bear