Biviana Atkinson Quotes & Sayings

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car. — John Moody

The demand to be prepared for all future actions and all situations is the cause of our problems. Every situation is so different; and our attempt to be prepared for all those situations is the one that is responsible for our not being able to deal with situations as they arise. — U.G. Krishnamurti

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again. — Louis L'Amour

One of the things that perhaps we can learn through the political process about bringing people together is to remember South Carolina, remember the families of the nine victims, how they brought a community together during the worst atrocity in our state's history, i am thankful that I live in a country where forgiveness can be seen in the worst of conditions. — Tim Scott

If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers. — Ivan Klima

Conversion is not, as some suppose, a violent opening of the heart by grace, in which will, reason and judgment are all ignored or crushed. The season is not blinded, but enlightened; and the whole man is made to act with a glorious liberty which it never knew till it fell under the restraints of grace. — Charles Spurgeon

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal. — Anthony Trollope

If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy. — Umberto Eco

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie. — John Dryden

I left Stone Sour in '97 because, by that time, we'd been together for about five years and I was kind of getting to the point where I wanted to do something different. I loved the music that we did and I loved the guys that I was with, but I was 24 and just felt like I needed to go and try something different so I didn't get stuck where I was, you know, just doing the same thing. And, coincidentally, that's when Slipknot came and asked me to join. I'd never done anything like Slipknot up until then, so I was like, "Okay, we'll try this and we'll see what happens." And it worked out. — Corey Taylor

Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears. — Elizabeth McCracken

The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was. — Diana Gabaldon

Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for. — Patrick DeWitt