Dabartinis Quotes & Sayings

When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson. — Will Rogers

We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection. — Sherry Turkle

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers. — John Kenneth Galbraith

If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess. — Ron Livingston

It was as if some magnetic repulsion, which before had kept our two carriages from meeting and passing, had now been reversed, and so sucked me inexorably forward, drawing me towards something my heart made clear I feared - or should fear - utterly, in the way some people are fatally attracted towards an abyss while standing on its very edge. — Iain Banks

The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror. — Flannery O'Connor

As during the time of kings it would have been naive to think that the king's firstborn son would be the fittest to rule, so in our time it is naive to think that the democratically elected ruler will be the fittest. The rule of succession is not a formula for identifying the best ruler, it is a formula for conferring legitimacy on someone or other and thus forestalling civil conflict. — J.M. Coetzee

Is this one of those contracts like in that kinky book where we outline what we're willing to do or not do during sex? Like our hard limits and safe words? — Katie Ashley

Dylan had helped Dex get the bed set up, and of course they made it right, the SEAL way. They'd even smiled at each other, the kind of smiles they used to share back when they'd been best friends. It seemed the tornado had broken down that wall that had risen up between them. And — Lauren Tarshis

I think people are tired of being slammed with foul language and sexual content that really has nothing to do with (telling a good story) ... — Shari Wiedmann

Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games. — Alan Dean Foster