Astuta Florida Quotes & Sayings

So are you going to tell me what happened last night?"
"You were there. You saw what happened."
"No. Last night ... that wasn't you."
"The last time you saw me I was jumping off the wall, Megan."
Megan's gaze burns into me. She isn't backing down. "You were always a daredevil, but you never had a death wish. The girl I knew was always running towards something. Last night ... you were running away. — Ally Carter

So; in the beginning was the Word, but ten nanoseconds later there was a twelve-volume dictionary, and ten nanoseconds after that a Library of Congress, with 90 per cent of the books in foreign languages. It's probably not possible after such a lapse of time to find out what the original Word was. Given the consequences, however, it could well have been oops. — Tom Holt

... Bond selection is primarily a negative art. It is a process of exclusion and rejection, rather than of search and acceptance. — Benjamin Graham

Being alive is inexplicable, I thought. Consciousness itself is inexplicable. There is nothing ordinary in the world. — Siri Hustvedt

The travails of being an employee include not only uncertainty about the duration of one's employment, but also the humiliation of many working practices and dynamics. With most businesses shaped like pyramids, in which a wide base of employees gives way to a narrow tip of managers, the question of who will be rewarded - and who left behind - typically develops into one of the most oppressive of the workplace, and one which, like all anxieties, feeds off uncertainty. Because achievement in most fields is difficult to monitor reliably, the path to promotion or its oppositie can acquire an apparently haphazard connection to results. The succesful alpinist of organizational pyramids may not be the best at their jobs, but those who have best mastered a range of dark political arts in which civilized life does not usually offer instruction. — Alain De Botton

Sometimes, like the bird that burns to ashes and then rises again renewed, the phoenix, we have to burn. — Russell Ablewhite

The world defines 'waste' very differently than Jesus does. — Michele Bachmann

The mind always found its way back to baseline. — Will McIntosh

Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things ... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected volume, which came out about few years ago. I didn't think of Winter Journal, for example, as an autobiography, or a memoir. What it is is a literary work, composed of autobiographical fragments, but trying to attain, I hope, the effect of music. — Paul Auster

We have tried to fit man into abstraction, but he does not fit. — Mark Tobey

The press follow me. I sue them. That's the deal. — Emmanuelle Beart

There's gonna be haters, but don't let them affect you, don't let them take away a part of you. — Demi Lovato

The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets. It's no time for theories when everything is falling to pieces around us. — Ayn Rand