Backsight Survey Quotes & Sayings

The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life. — Raymond Chandler

The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life). — Ajahn Brahm

But how wonderful when the tale is told,
And the message that is meant for us
Opens like the scents of a mountain flower! — Mazisi Kunene

With dedication towards a destination and some perspiration one gets their heartfelt realization. — Mark Victor Hansen

Our fathers never leave us. Ever. — Brad Meltzer

I was worried that being in a relationship would add to my responsibilities. That's why I've avoided them my whole life. I already have enough on my plate, and seeing the stress my parents' marriage seemed to cause them, and the failed marriages of some of my friends, I wanted no part in something like that. But after tonight, I realized that maybe a lot of people are just doing it wrong. Because what's happening between us doesn't feel like a responsibility. It feels like a reward. And I'll fall asleep wondering what I did to deserve it. — Colleen Hoover

Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him. — Joseph Addison

I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

If I would go out against some of these players and see them as their ranking, then I probably would have already lost before I even stepped on the court. — Johanna Konta

Being wealthy when no one else is, is like being the only one at the party with a drink. — Tim Allen

I've been locked in my own world for a really long time," he says. I have an excuse to keep people away, because of my disability. And then I saw your tattoo..." I turn his wrist over and trace my finger across it. He shudders at my touch, closing his eyes tightly. "And I felt like maybe, just maybe, we were locked in our own little worlds and could let each other out. — Tammy Falkner

Choas errupted amoung the watchers. They didn't think it was over at all. "He cheated! He used fire!"
"No, he won fairly enough!" — Michelle Paver

In spite of the surprises and anxieties and responsibilities of living, this was rather a nice world. — Alice B. Emerson