Distracterella Quotes & Sayings

I've found the secret of happiness, total disregard of everybody. — Ashleigh Brilliant

The 2012 payout will be the lowest in our history: well below 50 percent. — Ennio Doris

I was already obsessed. The test had offended me by giving me questions I couldn't answer. I intended to kill it. — Ned Vizzini

I would not begin to understand until I was a very old woman, and even then they would still be a mystery. — Alice Hoffman

I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have. — Max Lucado

life is not fair and love is not enough, but it is the only thing worth pursueing — John Gorka

There were relatives of their victims among the Hogwarts students, who now found themselves the unwilling objects of a gruesome sort of reflected fame as they walked the corridors: Susan Bones, whose uncle, aunt, and cousins had all died at the hands of one of the ten, said miserably during Herbology that she now had a good idea what it felt like to be Harry.
"And I don't know how you stand it- it's horrible" she said bluntly. — J.K. Rowling

Strictly by accident, Scott stumbled upon the most advanced weapon in the ultrarunner's arsenal: instead of cringing from fatigue, you embrace it. You refuse to let it go. You get to know it so well, you're not afraid of it anymore. — Christopher McDougall

I need not repeat familiar arguments about the waste of teachers' time, and the difficulties thrown in the way of English children trying to learn their own language; or the fact that nobody without a visual memory for words ever succeeds in spelling conventionally, however highly educated he or she may be. — George Bernard Shaw

My
soul, the mythical part of humans that the angels cared
about. — Ally Condie

Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. — Mitch Kapor

So the real question remains whether every problem is worth fixing. The answer to that is no. — Kaya McLaren

But there is always a point where things can no longer be put off, where you can't be weak one more day and promise yourself that tomorrow, tomorrow you will start that other life. — Jo Nesbo

Rowan Whitethorn is a legend. And so is his - what do you call them?"
"Cadre," she said glumly.
"The six of them ... " Aedion loosed a breath. "We used to tell stories about them around fires. Their battles and exploits and adventures."
She sighed through her nose. "Please, please don't ever tell him that. I'll never hear the end of it, and he'll use it in every argument we have. — Sarah J. Maas

People feel these job-killing trade agreements have really squeezed the middle class and caused lots of people to lose their middle-class status. — Sherrod Brown