Cassius Key Quotes & Sayings

Family is no doubt a pier glass for one's own self-contempt. But for all my regret that this should happen now, for all my frustration and incomprehension, those feelings, I knew, had to be set next to my own meager participation in these lives, the implicit idea that it was enough for me to show up now and again for a few days and assume the unencumbered neutrality that may, in fact, have been no different from my habitual absence. — Greg Jackson

I went over and over everything that had ever happened between us. I couldn't keep doing it, going back and fourth, holding her close and then pushing her away. It wasn't right — Jenny Han

If one door closes and another does not open, try climbing thru a window, either way, make your way in. — Behdad Sami

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself. — Bernard Crick

I get paid very well for an amazing, amazing life. I'm blessed. — Ellen DeGeneres

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft. — Jessamyn West

In the destructive element immerse. — Joseph Conrad

Healthcare should be between the doctor and the patient. And if the doctor says something needs to be done, the government should guarantee it gets paid for. — Michael Moore

Then who do we answer to? Ourselves?"

"Of course. Who else can we trust to wield our power? We must follow our own consciences."

- Corran and Jacen — Troy Denning

I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. — Herman Kahn

I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans. — Bobby Darin

As much as we like to think of ourselves as rational creatures, we are not. If we were, no one would throw away their perfectly working iPhone 5s to go pick up the latest Apple toy. We largely make decisions based on emotions, then rationalize them later with logical arguments. So how can you incorporate emotion into your facts and data? Use a visual story. — Anonymous

This was my conversion to the baroque. Here under that high and insolent dome, under those tricky ceilings; here, as I passed through those arches and broken pediments to the pillared shade beyond and sat, hour by hour, before the fountain, probing its shadows, tracing its lingering echoes, rejoicing in all its clustered feats of daring and invention, I felt a whole new system of nerves alive within me, as though the water that spurted and bubbled among its stones was indeed a life-giving spring. — Evelyn Waugh

No," said Godfrey, with a keen decisiveness of tone, in contrast with his usually careless and unemphatic speech - "there's debts we can't pay like money debts, by paying extra for the years that have slipped by. While I've been putting off and putting off, the trees have been growing - it's too late now. Marner was in the right in what he said about a man's turning away a blessing from his door: it falls to somebody else. — George Eliot

We all have a piece of God in us — Sunday Adelaja