Cxcix Quotes & Sayings

Well, honor is the subject of my story. — William Shakespeare

An overall trend of political moderation in Latin America makes for far less interesting headlines, but it also makes for far better lives for our people. — Oscar Arias

I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copies of books sold, or how many books that I've written. I could look these things up; I have no interest in them. I don't know how much money I have. There are a lot of things I just don't care about. — Joyce Carol Oates

Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I. — Wilhelm Keitel

Cincinnati is a beautiful city; cheerful, thriving, and animated. I have not often seen a place that commends itself so favourably and pleasantly to a stranger at the first glance as this does. — Charles Dickens

Victor spread his hands and beamed. "There's a truckload of supplies sitting on a dock in Madera. We got food, medicine, and machines ready to roll. All we need is a pigheaded truck driver with giant cojones and no brains to ram the stuff past the blockade and save the day." The pilot leaned back and put his hands behind his head. "Naturally, I thought of Abel Yeager. — Scott Bell

I learned that telling the truth was a big part of loving yourself. — Iyanla Vanzant

We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer. — Terence McKenna

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion. — Richard Avedon

Without business skills, your passion or hobby will not translate into money in your pocket. — Ehab Atalla

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality. — Ann Druyan

As First Minister, I will always act in the best interests of the country. As party leader, I will always act in the best interests of the party, and if that sometimes means taking difficult, unpalatable decisions, I will never shy away from that. — Nicola Sturgeon

True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth. — Mahatma Gandhi