Appartenir Passe Quotes & Sayings

For decades, chalk and alum have been added to bread, and burnt corn and peas ground up to make coffee. Vinegar is rendered sharper by the addition of sulphuric acid, arrowroot is added to milk to thicken it, mustard is eked out with flour, strychnine is added to beer for bitterness and green vitriol to encourage a foaming head. And these are but the harmless manipulations. — M.J. Carter

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols
it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. — William Hazlitt

Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again. — Anne Frank

Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears. — Homer

That's okay," I said. "We're writers. We make things up. — John Irving

Anyway, I think the two of you should be free to do whatever you want right now. When you're young, you think the only way to happiness is the hard road... but it's actually much simpler than that. — Inio Asano

A billion saved is a billion earned. — Norman Ralph Augustine

All writers are waiting for replies. That's what I've learned. Maybe all human beings are — Niall Williams

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show. — John Hawkes

But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God. — Frances Farmer

Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans. — Ken Blanchard

It's quite a discipline when we're in trouble to think of God and say, "I need some help." — Harold Klemp

See, that's the tragedy of the human condition. No one wants to be corrupted by power when they set out to get it. They have good, even noble reasons for doing whatever it is they do. They don't want to misuse it, they don't want to abuse it, and they don't want to become vicious monsters. Good people, decent people, set out to take the high road, to pick up power without letting it change them or push them away from their ideals.
But it keeps happening anyway.
History is full of it. As a rule, people aren't good at handling power. And the second you start to think you're better at controlling your power than anyone else, you've already taken the first step. — Jim Butcher