Carreton Quotes & Sayings

Hardly had they rested when the waves carried them out again, like a nightmare that repeats itself over and over through the night, and over and over again through the years. Back and forth they went and he feared that her strength could not hold. He had no confidence, not in himself, nor in her. He felt like a helpless child, and Diane seemed helpless too, their long struggle getting them nowhere, only repeating itself--contraction, release, contraction again. — William Kotzwinkle

I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That's what I call social business: a nondividend company dedicated to solving human problems. You can go all the way, forgetting about personal profit, being single-minded about solving problems. The company makes profit, but profit stays with the company. — Muhammad Yunus

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together. — Madeleine Albright

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me. — Zhang Ziyi

Whenever a homeless person speaks to me in the USA, I always assume that I am speaking to a police officer and play along with the suspected charade. — Steven Magee

People look like crazy, they do crazy things and they love their crazy life; stop inspiring them with your supernatural world and let them be who they chose to be. — M.F. Moonzajer

All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion. — Marcus Aurelius

I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood. — Terry Pratchett

Called by the sirens and followed by an albatross. — Lydia Millet

Good job," Alyx snapped. "You're very intelligent, Raye. You almost hit mom's car. — Millicent Ashby

Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits. — Dan Jenkins

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born. — Desiderius Erasmus

Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, because solving problems is a constant work-in-progress - the solutions to today's problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow's problems, and so on. True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving. Sometimes — Mark Manson