Diestelhorst Family Quotes & Sayings

We must be polite, Syen," he says. He's still smiling, but he's furious; she can tell because he's flashing too many teeth. "We're only orogenes, after all. And this is a member of the Stillness's most esteemed use-caste. We are merely here to wield powers greater than she can comprehend in order to save her region's economy, while she - " He waggles a finger at the woman, not even trying to hide his sarcasm. "She is a pedantic minor bureaucrat. But I'm sure she's a very important pedantic minor bureaucrat. — N.K. Jemisin

There are people whom we've never met in person yet feel closer to than those we brush up against in real life. — Richard Paul Evans

One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next. — Christopher Buckley

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change. — Peter F. Drucker

There is a sneakiness about girls that they keep hid under sweetness and pouting and crying. — Michael Lee West

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me. — Jodi Picoult

We cannot evangelize until we have been evangelized. This happens most powerfully through solitary prayer. — John Michael Talbot

The caterpillar they despise today is the butterfly they praise tomorrow. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life. Perhaps death is sacred, and I've profaned it. Oh, what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world the secret that God is so jealous of, the formula for life. Think of the power, to create a man. And I did, I did it, I created a man. And who knows, in time I could have trained him to do my will. I could have bred a race, I might even have found the secret of eternal life. — William Hurlbut

That is the most wonderful sentence I have ever heard. I want that on my gravestone. Snuffleupagus was real. No more. Just that. Harper — Joe Hill

Although I don't disagree that utterances express desires and try to make complexities precise, I actually don't think at all that any of our efforts to speak and mean things are ultimately why we speak. — Paul Fry