Accountedge Quotes & Sayings

He wants only to rest and to have a little peace. — Luciano Pavarotti

Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion. — Bryce Courtenay

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went. — Saki

Gussie is an orange-juice addict. He drinks nothing else.' 'I was not aware of that, sir.' 'I have it from his own lips. Whether from some hereditary taint, or because he promised his mother he wouldn't, or simply because he doesn't like the taste of the stuff, Gussie Fink-Nottle has never in the whole course of his career pushed so much as the simplest gin and tonic over the larynx — P.G. Wodehouse

Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes. — Mary McCarthy

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one. — Dolly Parton

If you want to minimize the possibility of unexpected breakthroughs, tell people they will receive no resources at all unless they spend the bulk of their time competing against each other to convince you they know in advance what they are going to discover. — David Graeber

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well. — Jennifer Beals

This new approach, it seemed, was not to be made so publicly, not to be exposed to the expedient treason of little devious minds far removed from the battlefields on which honest men met, and contended, and killed one another without malice. — Edith Pargeter

Dan thought of another AA aphorism: We're powerless over people, places, and things. Like most alkie nuggets, it was seventy percent true and thirty percent rah-rah bullshit. — Stephen King

While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security. — Ann Coulter

The belief that public health measures are not intended for people like us is widely held by many people like me. Public health, we assume, is for people with less - less education, less-healthy habits, less access to quality health care, less time and money. — Eula Biss

You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else. — John Burroughs

Don't keep saying 'huh', Silas. It makes you sound so crotchety." "Well, maybe I am crotchety. And I'll keep saying 'huh' if I want to, Sarah. Huh. — Angie Sage