Arend Quotes & Sayings

I think sometimes you get given a good pile of goodwill, and it's whether you use it up in the first six months or spread it out over a career. — Ricky Gervais

who are brave in ways that people often can't see on the outside - doing what's needed for their children and themselves. Your strength amazes — Vivian Arend

I considered organizing a game of wits - " "Admitting defeat already, are you? Since you're unarmed? — Vivian Arend

It was reported today that the machine on board the International Space Station that turns urine into drinking water has been fixed. After hearing this, an astronaut said, 'Wait. You mean that wasn't lemon Tang?' — Conan O'Brien

When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food. — Alain Ducasse

She tried to explain to them it wasn't the place that made people uncultured but their attitudes. — Vivian Arend

Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again. — Chanakya

We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment. — Robin Sloan

The first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life. — Umberto Eco

My fault now is making my plays too short. — Beth Henley

She racked her brain for the training session she'd taken on bear encounters, but it had been a long time ago. Stay still. It can't see me if I don't move. No, wait - that's what you're supposed to do for a T-Rex. — Vivian Arend

Why should it be any surprise that people find solace in the most intimate literary genre? Poetry slows us down, cherishes small details. A large disaster erases those details. We need poetry for nourishment and for noticing, for the way language and imagery reach comfortably into experience, holding and connecting it more successfully than any news channel we could name. — Naomi Shihab Nye

Seriously. Poor little me can deal with having mated a millionaire."
"Oh, you found someone else? With less money? — Vivian Arend

Transform, from a fault-finder and blamer to a solution-finder and appreciator. — Maddy Malhotra

sprinkled salt in a line ringing Kelsie's bed first, then grabbed candles from a box in the closet. They weren't the kind I had in my trailer. They were the kind with edible wax that smelled like molten candy. — Vivian Arend

Of the little less than a million eligibles roaming around, 5 percent don't know their sign and don't even care. Another 5 percent are tied to their mothers by a food fixation. That leaves only 20 percent who are searching for a girl who will pick up their clothes, run their baths, burn her fingers shelling their three-minute eggs, run their errands, bear them a child every year, look like a fashion model, tend their needs when they are sick, and hold down a full-time job outside the home to make payments on their boat. — Erma Bombeck

That's all I am, now. That's all that defines me. So when they're happy, they'll be me. — Greg Egan

Have a few beers?" Gabe resisted the urge to roll his eyes. "One, since part of the reason for you to — Vivian Arend

A proverb in the Old Testament states: 'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city'.
It is when we become angry that we get into trouble. The road rage that affects our highways is a hateful expression of anger. I dare say that most of the inmates of our prisons are there because they did something when they were angry. In their wrath they swore, they lost control of themselves, and terrible things followed, even murder. There were moments of offense followed by years of regret ...
So many of us make a great fuss of matters of small consequence. We are so easily offended. Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way. — Gordon B. Hinckley

our floating barge. — Tali Alexander

Tad socked him. Hard. Twice.
Someday the bad guys would realize monologues were a bad thing. — Vivian Arend