Amestoy Construction Quotes & Sayings

The conventional word that is employed to describe tyranny is "systematic." The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not. (The only rule of thumb was: whatever is not compulsory is forbidden.) Thus, the ruled can always be found to be in the wrong. — Christopher Hitchens

His assurance was enough for her to hold on to the shreds of her sanity . . . because Kaleb never broke his promises. Sahara! I'll come for you! Survive! Survive for me! — Nalini Singh

It was never possible for him to be where he was. For as long as he lived, he was somewhere else, between here and there. But never really here. And never really there. — Paul Auster

I make a distinction between theory and methodology, the latter being the practical deployment of a premise. Theory on the contrary may well be applied, hence becomes methodology without a hitch, but isn't necessarily practical at all. — Paul Fry

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought. — Mary Cheney

Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over. — E. M. Forster

Texas [10w]
Every Texan has a project and every picnic has fire-ants. — Beryl Dov

It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young. — Robin Marantz Henig

I hate the treadmill. I hate it. You really don't have to be on it that long, something like 20 or 30 minutes. It's all about getting your heart rate up. — Derek Jeter

Using creative expression as a means to a professional end makes me curl up a bit. — Jenny Slate