Citing Verbal Quotes & Sayings

The physiological law of Transfer of Energy is the basis of human success and happiness. There is no action without expenditure of energy, and if energy be not expended the power to generate it is lost. This law shows itself in a thousand ways in the life of man. The arm which is not used becomes palsied. The wealth which comes by chance weakens and destroys. The good which is unused turns to evil. The charity which asks no effort cannot relieve the misery she creates. — David Starr Jordan

I admire and look up to heroes, but indolent men make the best lovers. — Harriette Wilson

In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO. — Lee Iacocca

Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within. — Plutarch

the whisper of space being compressed. — Anthony Doerr

You could be a member of a special, macho, elite force, protecting mankind from insidios evil in all forms, including the triple-decker bacon cheeseburger."
"I can saftly say I've never battled a cheeseburger. — Kerrelyn Sparks

I've always lived to seize the moment, to squeeze every drop of expectation out of myself for whatever that moment gives you. — Greg Norman

The book was a challenge, a secondhand paperback crammed with huge and violent emotions in small crowded type on waterlogged pages. — Don DeLillo

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I feel I have grown up. I am a man. It's important in my football too. When everything is good, I don't think you grow up fantastically, I think maybe you need a few problems to grow up. It is good if people in England have started to admire me. I think I have changed a little since the World Cup. I am stronger with my mentality and with my game as well. — Cristiano Ronaldo

Maybe it's hungry," she suggested, her voice low but definitely goading now. "Do you keep kitty kibble around?" Silence — Lora Leigh

We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars,
watching Cassiopeia mount her throne
and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South.
I would say, "I have a secret to tell you."
And, folding me in your arms, boyish and sly,
you would answer: "Whisper it into my mouth.
— Diane Ackerman