Defences Or Defenses Quotes & Sayings

Our correspondences have wings - paper birds that fly from my house to yours - flocks of ideas crisscrossing the country. Once opened, a connection is made. We are not alone in the world. — Terry Tempest Williams

Do not ever give up trying - because eventually you will win." Judge Greg Mathis — Greg Mathis

Because you can make decisions for yourself even if they're wrong. Mistakes can be corrected. Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they'll be real, and you'll be living, not just existing. — Carolyn Brown

Play every game as if it is your last one. — Guy Lafleur

I like to think of myself as the Rod Blagojevich of television. — Mindy Kaling

Poisons are more my thing — Kate Morton

True sorrow is as rare as true love. I'm — Stephen King

None of us knows what we can bear until we're asked, — Martin Pistorius

To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals. — Brigid Brophy

Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do. — Verne Troyer

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else. — Benjamin Franklin

Did you really think I might have drawn that picture?" Emma swallowed a self-conscious lump in her throat, then lifted her chin. "I own the notion did cross my mind. But can you blame me? After all, you knew what the piece looked like and you gave me prodigious cause to suspect you in the past." He inhaled deeply. "I suppose you are right. But that was a long time ago. I have no interest in tricking you now. Nor in frightening you, nor any other dishonorable motive, I assure you." The warm tenor of his voice did odd things to Emma's stomach. She blinked, unable to meet his gaze. "Emma, look at me." She forced herself to meet his remarkable green eyes and saw the sincerity burning there. He said, "You have my word, Emma. I did not do this." He had called her Emma. She liked the sound of her name on his lips. Nodding, she said, "I believe you. — Julie Klassen

On Improbability:
There's an infinite number of things that can go wrong but only a finite number of things that can go right.
In the infinitude of unlikely events many will happen with unnerving frequency.
Tautology: A given improbable event isn't likely to happen.
Corollary: Shit happens, but you'll not know its ilk.
I'm certain that nothing is certain. — Kalifer Deil

I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this. — Thomas J. Grasso

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family. — Juliette Binoche