Aught In A Sentence Quotes & Sayings

He tossed his goblet on the floor, as if he couldn't allow Hearthstone to have the most impressive spill. — Rick Riordan

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom. — Jeremy Bentham

An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow. — Nick Bantock

The second term of the Bush administration and first five years of the Obama presidency have been devoted to codifying and institutionalizing the vast and unchecked powers that are typically vested in leaders in the name of war. Those powers of secrecy, indefinite detention, mass surveillance, and due-process-free assassination are not going anywhere. They are now permanent fixtures not only in the US political system but, worse, in American political culture. — Glenn Greenwald

A man that is focused on his purpose always saves his time. — Sunday Adelaja

The world lures people with its temptations and attractions, masking them with a cover of pleasure — Sunday Adelaja

A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along. — E.B. White

She wants him to become enchanted, to enter so deeply into her distress that his view of the world is changed and the insult of easy answers is no longer possible. Enchantment always causes complications. He is wise to resist, as she is equally wise to press for a true connection and nothing less. — Christine Wicker

Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor. — Sam Altman

You'd put our parents at risk for some piece of tail?" Ghleanna demanded.
"She saved my life."
"You can fight your own battles!"
"Not when I'm knocked out on my ass!"
"You mean knocked out on your fat ass!"
"My ass, like the rest of me, is perfection! — G.A. Aiken

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak. — Sun Tzu

The whole idea of comedy, there is nothing normal about going up on stage to make strangers laugh. But I'm also not an exhibitionist like other comics. I'm not up there talking about masturbating. — Jim Gaffigan

And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing. — Tennessee Williams

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble. — Douglas Sirk

Because for Amy, love was like drugs or booze or porn: There was no plateau. Each exposure needed to be more intense than the last to achieve the same result. — Gillian Flynn