Dimmesdale From The Scarlet Letter Quotes & Sayings

A man and his tools make a man and his trade. — Vita Sackville-West

Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession required an infinite capacity for cautious, contemplative thought. — Eric Frank Russell

I find infidelity interesting because it's so revelatory about people. It's this really silent thing. Everyone acknowledges it as a general practice, but nobody likes to go beyond that, to get down to the nitty-gritty. — Junot Diaz

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which ... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan

In most couples there is the person who wins and the person who doesn't. The winner isn't necessarily stronger or smarter or righter. The winner is the person who won't give up, and the non-winner ("loser" is not the correct word for the person who does not win), at a certain point, realizes the battle is a silly one, and the spoils are not worth the extended warfare. — Heidi Julavits

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism. — Diane Sawyer

So far as I am concerned, I am not at all aware that there indeed exists a serious side as well to my cartoons drawn in an inspired mood of mischievous abandon. — R. K. Laxman

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. — Galileo Galilei

How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out. — Orson Scott Card

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money. — Helen Gurley Brown

I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person. — Karen Carpenter