Backsourcing Quotes & Sayings

He loved his job, which allowed time to do it without comparing his performance to others'. He loved the economics of death: hastening a person's passage into the afterlife not only provided him with a good living: it gave work to coroners, beat cops, detectives, crime scene technicians, the people who made fingerprint powder and luminal and other sundry chemicals and devices - not to mention firearm, ammunition, coffin, and tissue manufacturers - obituary writers, crime reporters, novelists. — Robert Liparulo

In most relationships, one partner has more control than the other. It was just the natural order of things. Perfect balance was a hard thing to find. — Harlan Coben

Where I create, there I am true. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The bruises on one's heart were always the hardest ones to heal, they seemed to last the longest. — Brittainy C. Cherry

So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do not be surprised to see American students continuing to score lower on international tests than students in countries that spend a lot less per pupil than we do. — Thomas Sowell

Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can. — Marin Hinkle

She was strength and power and so many things he'd pretended for twelve years he didn't miss, didn't need. — Natalie J. Damschroder

Every time I was playing basketball, I felt sick to my stomach. I didn't realize that feeling was having to leave my family - having to leave my sister, who can't even communicate with me when I'm gone. — Elena Delle Donne

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. — William James

It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work. — Hal David

I really like the idea of restaurant life, especially in New York where everyone has small apartments - that restaurant culture where you sit at a table for a long time and the afternoon goes by and you're kind of living there. I like that more than nightlife. — Piper Perabo

If any person raises his hand to strike down another on the ground of religion, I shall fight him till the last breath of my life, both as the head of the government and from the outside — Jawaharlal Nehru

Well, well, well. Tickle my Elmo ass silly. — J.A. Saare

Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing. — Ernest L. Boyer