Bertolis Dc Quotes & Sayings

You don't stare the devil in the eyes and come out without some of his sin. You can't beat the devil without becoming like him. You can't appeal to his kindness, so you have to learn to play his games. You lie, you fuck, you manipulate, you fight, you hurl insults, until you do whatever it takes to win the battle. Every time you do those things, you understand him a little more. Until finally, he becomes your ally. You think you've won, that you've made him more like you. But the truth is, it's the other way around. So that even when you win, you've lost. — Nina G. Jones

Grace is darkness and light, peacefully co-existing, as illumination. — Jaeda DeWalt

From the great Jack London: "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." What inspires you? — Gayle Lynds

People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel. — Daniel Kahneman

I stopped loving my father at some point while I was a drunk. I began hating him after I became sober. — Phil Volatile

The psycho-babble lavished on her by her mother in a prior life found her, whispering of trauma and coping, how this was not her fault and blaming herself at all was useless. She would eventually try to believe this, as soon as she was behind her locked bedroom door. — Thomm Quackenbush

Duke was a burly, barrel-shaped Rottweiler made up of muscle and solid fat and built like a wrestler, a dog that looked like it was permanently on the verge of dying of boredom. He shook his weighty head as if he was being plagued by ear-mites and dislodged a scatter of small romantic words like a broken rope of pearls. — Kate Atkinson

A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor. — Eric Bentley

Love just didn't go away that quickly and easily when it was real. — Shan

Don't let your habits become handcuffs — Elizabeth Berg

The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box. — Marc Andreessen

You cannot have a thing "matter" by itself which shall have no motion in it, nor yet a thing "motion" by itself which shall exist apart from matter; you must have both or neither. You can have matter moving much, or little, and in all conceivable ways; but you cannot have matter without any motion more than you can have motion without any matter that is moving. — Samuel Butler

A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating. — Mark Kurlansky

When I step into the kitchen in the morning, I go for the scrambled eggs with pine nuts and minced lamb. When I finish at night, it is hard to resist the burger. — Geoffrey Zakarian