Choicely Quotes & Sayings

He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend. — Noorilhuda

History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made. — Zephyr Teachout

It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now. — Kurt Vonnegut

We're [Ocean Conservancy group] trying to convince people it's a bad idea to catch fish faster than they can reproduce. That should be a duh, but it's still going on. — Mark Powell

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. — Izaak Walton

Bond looked at the beautiful day and smiled. And no man, not even Mr. Big, would have liked the expression on his face. — Ian Fleming

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome. — Tony Blair

You don't wait and wait for the perfect person at the perfect time. — Charles Merrill