Captain Thomas Preston Quotes & Sayings

That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our hometown changes, even in small ways. It's unsettling. The playground! It used to be right here, I swear. Mess with our hometown, and you're messing with our past, with who we are. Nobody likes that. — Eric Weiner

Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul — Lawrence Durrell

I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention. — Wendi McLendon-Covey

If you accept the situation, you will find strength for strategic adaptation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Euphemisms, vague terminology or calls for discussions with Turkey to get at the truth are just some of the dodges Congress and the administration have used to avoid Turkish discomfort with its Ottoman past. — Adam Schiff

And daughters who are so hopeless at doing the done thing and sticking to the rules are automatically paralyzed with guilt whenever they come within fifty yards of a mother like Margaret. — Susan Howatch

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces. — Ian Frazier

Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience. — P.T. Barnum

I can speak to actors in their terms. Knowing I was an actor, they relax. You can have the best shot in the world - but, at the center of it, you still need a good performance. — Don Scardino

Selfless and bravery aren't that different — Veronica Roth

We sent a robot to do a man's job. — Daniel H. Wilson

Seduction is a matter of feelings and people opening themselves. I don't think it's something tricky - it's being human. And everybody is seduced by something different. — Miuccia Prada

The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world ... He or she is able to see not only the absence of complexity, the absence of duality, but the stoneness of stone and the waterness of water. One sees things precisely as they are, not merely in the physical sense, but with awareness of their spiritual significance. — Chogyam Trungpa

Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill? — Diane Glancy

Read and find out. — Robert Jordan