Checkhostip Quotes & Sayings

My life came complete with a factory-installed biological brother seven years my senior. — Augusten Burroughs

I've never bought a boxed set DVD or anything like that. — Aden Young

I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests. — Voltaire

From senior management that my customer would not get scalped, then everyone could win. Salomon would make a lot of money. My customer would make a little money (which, for a customer, was grand). And I would be a hero. If there was a single lesson I took away from Salomon Brothers, it is that rarely do all parties win. The nature of the game is zero sum. A dollar out of my customer's pocket was a dollar — Michael Lewis

Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith. — Stephen R. Covey

If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being. — Anzia Yezierska

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time. — Pedro Almodovar

The picture, changed or unchanged, would be to him the visible emblem of conscience. — Oscar Wilde

There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum. — Thorstein Veblen

I don't want to be your first, Fallon. I want to be your last. — Colleen Hoover

Destiny knows no compromise, only consequences. — Eliza Serena Robinson

In the horrible places, the battle for control escalates until you get tied down or locked into your Geri-chair or chemically subdued with psychotropic medications. In the nice ones, a staff member cracks a joke, wags an affectionate finger, and takes your brownie stash away. In almost none does anyone sit down with you and try to figure out what living a life really means to you under the circumstances, let alone help you make a home where that life becomes possible. This is the consequence of a society that faces the final phase of the human life cycle by trying not to think about it. We end up with institutions that address any number of societal goals - from freeing up hospital beds to taking burdens off families' hands to coping with poverty among the elderly - but never the goal that matters to the people who reside in them: how to make life worth living when we're weak and frail and can't fend for ourselves anymore. — Atul Gawande

You can put a kidney in your body - and somewhere down the line, your body might reject it. — Grizz Chapman

He couldn't keep his eyes off her face, wished she'd take off those damned sunglasses so he could see the eyes he'd known so well. — Ken Grimwood