Buttressing Bone Quotes & Sayings

I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did die, right there, all that time ago, and this is a ghost who has been telling you stories and drinking your wine. You don't understand. Never mind. — Peter S. Beagle

Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it's true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy. — Warren Buffett

Chloe is really just like an exaggerated aspect of myself. — Mary Lynn Rajskub

Everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent. — George Henry Lewes

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all. — Richard Gere

Metaphor reveals a writer's true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much of a life. — Norman Mailer

Shadows fell on them like predators as the light went out. — China Mieville

I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it. — Richard Holbrooke

The world will throw lies at you, aimed at your heart, aimed to kill. — Lacey Sturm

Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course. — Henry David Thoreau

Things are only impossible if you stop to think about them. — Lindsay Eagar

Of course, there's some you think, well I wouldn't let them in the door, but there's not many. It's very important to know that it's a mutual thing, that there is respect and a form of teamwork. With quite a few of them it can be traumatic, but there are moments in here when they do extraordinary things with their designs. There are things of beauty I get to see in this office. — Louise Wilson

A fool pulls the leaves. A brute chops the trunk. A sage digs the roots. — Pierce Brown

Of course, I do not believe that there is such a thing as a 'value-free' science, much less a value-free 'social science.' Hence, I do not urge anything so naive as a value-free observer or observation; on the contrary, what I urge is that the observer's aims and values be as clear and explicit as possible. — Thomas Szasz