Bookstands Quotes & Sayings

I adore John Mayer. I don't see how anything that surrounds John could be negative. — Jessica Simpson

All my life, following the warrior's code has taken me to places I was afraid to go. But always when I got there I was glad I made the journey. — Frank Shamrock

I suspect that what makes hedonists so angry when they think about overachievers is that the overachievers, without drugs or orgies, have more fun. — Wallace Stegner

He shall rule them with a rod of iron. - Revelations II:25 — Robert A. Heinlein

[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk. — Margot Asquith

Stop worrying whether the grass is greener on the other side. Find out how to own the other side. — Ashwin Sanghi

I don't really understand why people are so interested in me, personally. I'm just a curator. I'm just telling people things I think are cool. — Elise Andrew

You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just chalked it up to another cool thing about you. I never realized how much you hurt. — Ai Yazawa

Every cause that has not yet produced its effect is an event that has not yet come to completion. It is an imbalance of energy that is in the process of becoming balanced. — Gary Zukav

Tell it, Fanny. About the crowds, streets, buildings, lights, about the whirligig of loneliness, about the humpty-dumpty clutter of longings. And then explain about the summer parks and the white snow and the moon window in the sky. Throw in a poignantly ironical dissertation on life, on its uncharted aimlessness, and speak like Sherwood Anderson about the desire that stir in the heart. Speak like Remy de Gourmont and Dostoevsky and Stevie Crane, like Schopenhauer and Dreiser and Isaiah; speak like all the great questioners whose tongues have wagged and whose hearts have burned with questions. He will listen bewilderedly and, perhaps, only perhaps, understand for a moment the dumb pathos of your eyes. — Ben Hecht

It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government — John Rawls

The day General Soleimani flew back from Moscow to Iran was the day we believed that Russia used cyber warfare against the joint chiefs. We need a new commander in chief that will stand up to our enemies. — Ted Cruz

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost. — Benjamin Disraeli