Couldnt Choose Quotes & Sayings

Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom. — Tahir Shah

The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from the elements of a sometimes successful civil religion based around a sentimental, indeed sometimes teary-eyed, attachment to the constitution and a belief in the quasi-divine wisdom of the founding fathers. — Simon Critchley

Before he could even introduce himself I asked about the cocktail menu. If I was going to sit through this lunch, I was going to need some help. — Adriane Leigh

That's because true travel, the kind with no predetermined end, is one of the most selfish endeavors we can possibly undertake-an act in which we focus solely on our own fulfillment, with little regard to those we leave behind. After all, we're the ones venturing out into the big crazy world, filling up journals, growing like weeds. And we have the gall to think they're just sitting at home, soaking in security and stability.
It is only when we reopen these wrapped and ribboned boxes, upon our triumphant return home, that we discover nothing is the way we had left it before. — Stephanie Elizondo Griest

I understand welfare because I lived it. I understand the difference between a want and a need. The Republican Party promised to bring welfare change. We must deliver on this promise. — Paul LePage

I am but a small shard in a grand mosaic. — Fred Crane

Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level. — Bill Shorten

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

If a woman could win love with her body, the world would have no bastards. — Meredith Duran

You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and fingernails, everything, it's like I'm full of electricity and I'm glowing in the dark - I'm on fire almost - I'm burning away into nothing - but it doesn't matter because I know exactly who I am. — Tim O'Brien

It's important to stay in this moment right here, the now. This moment is the most important moment of your life. — RuPaul

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war. — Ambrose Bierce

When you see recurring problems, the methods you've used successfully in the past have to be reevaluated. — Mark Miller

What more shall I say: born under light bulbs, deliberately stopped growing at age of three, given drum, sang glass to pieces, smelled vanilla, coughed in churches, observed ants, decided to grow, buried drum, emigrated to the West, lost the East, learned stonecutter's trade, worked as model, started drumming again, visited concrete, made money, kept finger, gave finger away, fled laughing, rode up escalator, arrested, convicted, sent to mental hospital, soon to be acquitted, celebrating this day my thirtieth birthday and still afraid of the Black Witch. Chapter 46, pg. 587 — Gunter Grass

Hard work is the price we must pay for success — Vince Lombardi