Cantacuzino Palace Quotes & Sayings

I entirely appreciate loyalty to ones friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it. — Theodore Roosevelt

To a drone I'd have a tiny heat signature, like a squirrel or something. A secretly very, very deadly squirrel. — Brandon Sanderson

Faith affects the whole of man's nature. It commences with the conviction of the mind based on adequate evidence; it continues in the confidence of the heart or emotions based on conviction, and it is crowned in the consent of the will by means of which the conviction and confidence are expressed in conduct. — W.H. Griffith Thomas

In the course of your education you have always been taught to look for the right answer - but you must also know that in life, sometimes the right answer is that there isn't one. — William Daniels

Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.' — Laura Benanti

She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet taller; but she was not Her. The Egregious Professor of Grammar and Usage would have corrected this to "she was not she," which would have caused the Professor of Logic to spit out his drink. — Terry Pratchett

He said, 'are you telling the truth?'
I said, 'Yes. I always tell the truth. — Mark Haddon

There is no sport as competitive as business. It's 24 by 7 by 365 by forever. — Mark Cuban

I'm sick of hearing it. I don't think it's right to stand by while innocent people are being tortured. I feel like that's how most horrible things continue to happen. It's because other people don't step in to stop it. — Kris Noel

Why, if Daniel Haws was to take out his naked cock and shake it in your face, you'd die of apoplexy. — James Purdy

I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, 'You know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.' — George R R Martin