Decourcy Bracketology Quotes & Sayings

What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that? — Terry Pratchett

I want to be a living work of art — Luisa Casati

Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone. — Mary Kay Ash

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind. — Albert Einstein

Atop a Ferris wheel, Orson Welles told Joseph Cotten how Italy's thirty years of war and terror and bloodshed had produced the Renaissance and Michelangelo, and how Switzerland's five hundred years of democracy and peace had produced, goddamn, only the cuckoo clock. — Kevin Wilson

Revere the unity of all-that-is
carry out your daily activities with compassion;
if you do not limit your compassion,
you yourself will not be limited. — Lao-Tzu

Some people will try to talk you out of chasing your goals; not because they think you'll fail, but because they are scared you'll succeed. — Steve Maraboli

The behavior of a system cannot be known just by knowing the elements of which the system is made. — Donella H. Meadows

As I aspire, I inspire ... there's room for all of us! — J. Hale Turner

All I ask the haters
and I, too, am one
is that they strive to perfect their contempt, even consider bringing it to bear on poems, where it will be deepened, not dispelled, and where, by creating a place for possibility and present absences (like unheard melodies), it might come to resemble love. — Ben Lerner

I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload. — Ridley Scott

Thirty-one days later, in the summer of 1981, he became a full-time writer, and the feeling of liberation as he left the agency for the last time was heady and exhilarating. He shed advertising like an unwanted skin, though he continued to take a sneaky pride in his bestknown slogan, "Naughty but nice" (created for the Fresh Cream Cake Client), and in his "bubble words" campaign for Aero chocolate (IRRESISTIBUBBLE, DELECTABUBBLE, ADORABUBBLE, the billboards cried, and bus sides read TRANSPORTABUBBLE, trade advertising said PROFITABUBBLE, and storefront decals proclaimed AVAILABUBBLE HERE). Later that year, when Midnight's Children was awarded the Booker Prize, the first telegram he received - there were these communications called "telegrams" in those days - was from his formerly puzzled boss. "Congratulations," it read. "One of us made it. — Salman Rushdie

I willingly accept Cassandra's fate
To speak the truth, although believed too late. — Anne Killigrew

A cautionary tale I had carried with me from China, and which I firmly believed, was that anyone who attempted to have a foreign lover would be drugged and carted back to China in a jute sack. — Jung Chang

How she can be innocent even if she has no intention of harming me; her sweetness and loveliness is the main source of all my pains and sufferings. — M.F. Moonzajer