Churchill El Alamein Quotes & Sayings

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing? — Emmitt Smith

When I'm teaching, I'm not really doing my job if the student who's always comfortable doing wacko stuff all over the page keeps getting gold stars from me for doing wacko stuff all over the page. A riskier assignment for that student, who might be used to hiding behind a lot of formal armor, would be to try to do something straightforward, traditionally, in which they are much more directly laid bare for the reader. — John D'Agata

My mistakes are usually so enjoyable that I tend to
repeat them. — Lisa Kleypas

Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best. — Charlie Munger

I wondered once if Corion had put that sickness in me, if I were the tool and he the architect of that violence and cruelty. I wondered if having taken his head, if having grown from boy to man, I would be a better person. I wondered if I might be the man the Nuban wanted me to be, the man Tutor Lundist hoped for. — Mark Lawrence

The real disturbers of the peace are those who, in a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they are unable to tyrannize over. — Baruch Spinoza

And what,' he asked the dragons, 'so spurred their zeal?'
'Vengeance, of course. And Anomandaris. — Steven Erikson

There is no other city as vulgar and obscene as Osaka. We should celebrate the image and welcome the development of casinos and red-light districts to attract people. — Toru Hashimoto

That's the worst thing about having chakaare like us around. We just wander off, find someplace you don't know about, and hole up in it and get into all sorts of mischief that you know nothing about. And then we bill you for it. Dreadful."
"Dreadful. Is this the kind of thing that CSF might notice?"
"Were we to get out of hand, I imagine very senior officers in CSF might need to be reassured, but not by you."
"Dreadful. Hypothetically, anyway. — Karen Traviss

As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then that means nobody wants to read what you're doing anyway, so you're stuck. — Iain Sinclair

So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own. — Sarah Dessen

Doing that kind of work, you really get to know if you like animals. If you can somehow enjoy cleaning out their cages, then you know you genuinely love animals. — Jack Hanna

I played against him (Wilkins) in college. Getting nominated with him, that's pretty cool. — Charles Barkley