Algebraically Determine Quotes & Sayings

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Your mind is a sort of world to me: you can tell me all I want to know. I think I should never be tired of being with you. — George Eliot

Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me. — Trent Lott

It's worth pointing out that [Herman Melville] worked in [the New York Custom House] as a deputy customs inspector between 1866 and 1885. Nineteen years, and he never got a raise - four dollars a day, six days a week. He was by then a washed-up writer, forgotten and poor. I used to find this subject heartbreaking, a waste: the greatest living American author was forced to spend his days writing tariff reports instead of novels. But now, knowing what I know about the sleaze of the New York Custom House, and the honorable if bitter decency with which Melville did his job, I have come to regard literature's loss as the republic's gain. Great writers are a dime a dozen in New York. But an honest customs inspector in the Gilded Age? Unheard of. — Sarah Vowell

Flora's heart, the lonely, many-armed squid of it, flipped and flailed inside her. — Kate DiCamillo

By day it is filled with boat traffic - water
buses, delivery boats, gondolas - if something floats
and it's in Venice, it moves along the Grand Canal.
And by daylight it is one of the glories of the Earth.
But at night, especially when the moon is full
and the soft illumination reflects off the water and
onto the palaces - I don't know how to describe
it so I won't, but if you died and in your will you
asked for your ashes to be spread gently on the
Grand Canal at midnight with a full moon,
everyone would know this about you - you loved and understood beauty. — William Goldman

Something may be a sort of fulfillment of yourself, and it may not be great to other people, but it is just as essential to yourself as if it is a great masterpiece. — Zelda Fitzgerald

With my kids, they're told 75 times a day that they're loved. One thing I know is they feel loved and secure and happy and needed and necessary and a part of something. — Johnny Depp

The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God. — Jonathan Edwards

But my mother would tell me that people are flawed and I should be lenient with them. — Veronica Roth

I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life? — Shah Rukh Khan

Cuz if I don't say I'm the best, tell me who the hell will? — Phife Dawg

Yesterday is but a dream,
Tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. — Kalidasa

When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable. — Vince Vaughn