Auvo Niiniketo Quotes & Sayings

being then just dinner-time, we went, first into the great kitchen, where every prisoner's dinner was in course of being set out separately (to be handed to him in his cell), with the regularity and precision of clock-work. I said aside, to Traddles, that I wondered whether it occurred to anybody, that there was a striking contrast between these plentiful repasts of choice quality, and the dinners, not to say of paupers, but of soldiers, sailors, labourers, the great bulk of the honest, working community; of whom not one man in five hundred ever dined half so well. But I learned that the 'system' required high living; and, in short, to dispose of the system, once for all, I found that on that head and on all others, 'the system' put an end to all doubts, and disposed of all anomalies. Nobody appeared to have the least idea that there was any other system, but THE system, to be considered. — Charles Dickens

Five days after the Tsarnaev brothers blew up Boston's most sacred event, and just 24 hours after one brother was killed and the other was caught, everyone decided that it was OK to play baseball at Fenway again. The game happened on a Saturday afternoon, preceded by an emotional ceremony and many prayers. — Bill Simmons

The lesson is that you're just an animal in a cage, no more than that, no better than that. — Stephen King

Attitudes are every bit as important as aptitudes. — Harvey MacKay

The beauty of scientific laws shows the beauty of God himself. — Vern Sheridan Poythress

In truth, it made me pity him, and see him as a fool. — Alice Walker

You think he has some bomb defusing MacGyver contraption cooked up that involves lube, condoms, and a paper clip? — Stephani Hecht

I set out to write books, to be surrounded by generous, brilliant people, and to have great adventures. — Rebecca Solnit

There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft ... — Clement Freud

Bombeck's Rug Rule: an ugly carpet will last for ever. — Erma Bombeck

I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of people. My dividing line runs between the people who crave certainty and the people who trust chance. — John Perry Barlow

Greatness comes by beginning something that doesn't end with you. — Robin Sharma

We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter. — Luc De Clapiers

Traveling is more fun
hell, life is more fun
if you can treat it as a series of impulses. — Bill Bryson