49203 Quotes & Sayings

We lead our lives so poorly because we arrive in the present always unprepared, incapable, and too distracted for everything. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The oboe's a horn made of wood.
I'd play you a tune if I could,
But the reeds are a pain,
And the fingering's insane.
It's the ill wind that no one blows good. — Ogden Nash

Most people can't wait to leave kidhood behind. But I keep the kid in my heart, you know, and once in a while she gets out. It's a writer thing. The past is material. You never want to forget it, how it was, how it felt. — Dean Koontz

My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

For things to change for you, you've got to change! — Jim Rohn

What I like is bottomless flattery. — Peter O'Toole

I have the liberal dictionary right here ... let's see how they define water-boarding: 'Something done by the evil troops, who we don't support, to innocent terrorists violating their rights to bomb our cities and make us get gay marriage.' — Jon Stewart

He made no reply to that, so she continued, gently wiping around his nose, over the broad brow, and up the craggy cheekbones. Not a handsome face. Not pretty or comely. But it was a good face, she thought. Certainly masculine. Certainly one she was attracted to. She paused, swallowing at the thought. She did not know this man. She knew of him - knew that he would without hesitation fling himself into a filthy hole to save her son, knew he was kind to silly dogs and quarrelsome old women, knew he could, with a single, certain look, make her insides heat and melt - but she did not know him. — Elizabeth Hoyt

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Something tells me that Alex has some demons and I can tell you from experience that those suckers don't go down easy. — Mary J. Williams

Each soul enters with a mission. We all have a mission to perform. — Edgar Cayce

We always monitor the flow of information, intelligence, threat streams to see whether we have any indication there's some imminent. We work hard to identify potential cells and disrupt them. This is one of the reasons we put so much emphasis on intelligence gathering. — Michael Chertoff

That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject. — Andrew Carnegie

It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation. — Arthur Conan Doyle

You don't dream so that you can remember it. You dream to achieve it. — Anthony Kim