Comprehensively Sanctioned Quotes & Sayings

The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program. — Mitch Kapor

When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself in the face of the boy. He imagines what the boy sees when he looks at him and finds himself becoming his own father. Inexplicably, he is moved by this. It is not just the sight of the boy that moves him, not even the thought of standing inside his father, but what he sees in the boy of his own vanished past. It is a nostalgia for his own life that he feels, perhaps, a memory of his own boyhood as a son to his father. — Paul Auster

There are some secrets so toxic you can't share. Especially if you love who it is you'd have to share with. — Joyce Carol Oates

I came to be emulated. That's what people didn't get. Followed, as in being an example, as in making your interior world resemble mine. p. 22 — Roland Merullo

Acceptance is the only way out of hell. — Marsha M. Linehan

Adoption would become a priority in our churches if our churches themselves saw our brotherhood and sisterhood in the church itself rather than in our fleshly identities. — Russell D. Moore

Yet, when struck at a particular angle by a flicker of candlelight from the chandelier, its heart of wine-drenched velvet shone through. — Tom Robbins

A number of holistic and complementary medical doctors in the US, from general practitioners to psychiatrists, are using maca with a variety of patients. Both men and women report a significant boost in libido. And a number of men who have suffered from erectile dysfunction have improved, as a result of taking maca. — Chris Kilham

It's certain death anyway, said Ridcully. That's the thing about Death, certainty. — Terry Pratchett

I think there's a myth that people feel, that people of success are never fearful, that we're never challenged, that we have some supernova - no, we're like everybody else. — Robin Roberts

What bosom beast not in his country's cause? — Alexander Pope

When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist. — Grover Norquist

Was his memory failing or had he so disciplined it in the repression of unpleasant facts that he had damaged his sense of the truth? — John Cheever

There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset. — Gloria Steinem