Diagnosing Difference Quotes & Sayings

When they ran up to him, Percy said, 'Hey,' like they were just meeting for lunch or something.
'You're alive!' Frank marveled.
Percy frowned. 'The fall? That was nothing. I fell twice that far from the St. Louis Arch.'
'You did what?' Hazel asked. — Rick Riordan

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. — Dylan Thomas

It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force — William Woodruff

It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day. — Dejan Stojanovic

I generally edit quite heavily. In general, there aren't many scenes that are sitting where they sat in the script in the final form. — Susanne Bier

I've never thought of the Olympics as a political statement. I really think a boycott ... is in the wrong as far as the athletes are concerned. — Johnny Weir

Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and their result too fallacious to satisfy the mind. It is probably an age too soon to propose the establishment of a system. — Thomas Jefferson

We must not touch our idols; the gilt sticks to our fingers. — Gustave Flaubert

And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done. — Gregory Maguire