Czerdas Quotes & Sayings

for pleasing to me are meadows and a far view — Sandra Dallas

It seems we humans never learn. And so we relearn the lesson every generation and then want to write epistles. We proselytize to our friends and shake them by the shoulders and tell them, Seize the day! What matters is THIS moment! — Abraham Verghese

We believe there should be a huge area between everything you should do and everything you can do without getting into legal trouble. I don't think you should come anywhere near that line. We don't deserve much credit for this. It helps us make more money. I'd like to believe that we'd behave well even if it didn't work. But more often, we've made extra money from doing the right thing. Ben Franklin said I'm not moral because of it's the right thing to do - but because it's the best policy. — Charlie Munger

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent. — John Tillotson

The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs. — Kaskade

The best sentence? The shortest. — Anatole France

Described as a "workaholic speed-writing freak" by fellow writers, a "creative writing class drill sergeant" by his writing 'padawans', Voinov is a self-confessed geek and has enlarged his days by 12 secret hours in return for the sacrifice of ten albino virgin pygmy hippos. — Aleksandr Voinov

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?' — Sean Astin

Silence is golden but too long a silence an imitation junk — Amit Abraham

I got no reason to be afraid of God. I've even got a bone or two to pick with Him. — Cormac McCarthy

True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are changed by His attitude toward that person or circumstance. People describe intercession by saying, "It is putting yourself in someone else's place." That is not true! Intercession is putting yourself in God's place; it is having His mind and His perspective. — Oswald Chambers

I've been around Congress long enough to know there are issues we may never see eye-to-eye from the opposite aisle, but we should all agree that our job is to move America forward and benefit the people. — Charles B. Rangel

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. — W. Clement Stone

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection. — John Ruskin

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P', ... ). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity. — Larry Wall