Doubledays Centerville Quotes & Sayings

We can only lose what we have first claimed. — Richard Paul Evans

The Romans dominated Egypt for four hundred years, from the time of Augustus (30 BC to 395 AD). — Michael Tsarion

To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal. — Earl Nightingale

I tried to go back and talk about what I did know. I told her about one girl he'd brought home from Cornell; I'd asked if she was his girlfriend, and he's said, When you define something, you limit it. — Melissa Bank

Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun. — Graydon Carter

An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one. — Jules Renard

They needed to be an independent state, sovereign perhaps, semiautonomous at least. Semiautonomy might be enough, given the realities of the two worlds; semiautonomy would justify calling it a free Mars. But in the current state of things they were no more than property, and had no real power over their own lives. Decisions were made for them a hundred million kilometers away. Their home was being chopped up into metal bits and shipped away. It was a waste, it benefited no one except a small metanational elite who were running the two worlds like feudal fiefdoms. No, they needed to be free - and not so that they could cast loose from Earth's terrible situation, not at all - rather, to be able to exert some real influence over what was happening down there. Otherwise they were only going to be helpless witnesses to catastrophe. And then sucked down into the maelstrom after the first sets of victims. That was intolerable. They had to act. — Kim Stanley Robinson

You can, of course, be a sexy, strong female and be a good role model. — Ricki-Lee Coulter

Some people might say I need to learn how to relax. — Taryn Manning