Dow Jones Industrial Average Historical Quotes & Sayings

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. — Tom Wilson

Sometimes we don't know how afraid we are until we've reached a strange door and we don't know what will be on the other side. — Lauren DeStefano

I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it. — Richard O'Brien

There is a code of behavior, she knew, whose seventh article (it may be) says that on occasions of this sort it behooves the woman, whatever her own occupation may be, to go to the help of the young man opposite so that he may expose and relieve the thigh bones, the ribs, of his vanity, of his urgent desire to assert himself; as indeed it is their duty, she reflected, in her old maidenly fairness, to help us, suppose the Tube were to burst into flames. Then, she thought, I should certainly expect Mr. Tansley to get me out. But how would it be, she thought, if neither of us did either of these things? So she sat there smiling. — Virginia Woolf

Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn't do good for people, she did right by them. — Terry Pratchett

Friends,' said Laurent, 'Is that what we are?'
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Damen said, with helpless honesty, 'Laurent, I am your slave. — C.S. Pacat

It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous. — Emily Robison

Don't let something that doesn't matter cause you to lose something that does — Steve Jobs

No sooner do I conquer a bad habit than I become the biggest critic of anyone who still does what I just stopped doing. — Judah Smith

If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it. — Tanya Davis

A man needs a woman to take care of him so she can make him strong enough for her to lean on. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

Just what do you plan to do, Sharpe?" the Lieutenant asked.
"Don't know, sir. Won't know till we get there."
"You're going to the mine?"
"Aye, sir."
"There'll be guards."
"Like as not."
"And only two of us."
"I can count, sir." Sharpe grinned. "It's reading I find hard. But my letters are coming on, aren't they? — Bernard Cornwell

Yeah." They shared a companionable silence as the coffee brewed. When it was finished, Holden poured two mugs and handed one to Naomi. "Captain," she said, then paused. "Jim. I've been a pain-in-the-ass XO so far. I've been stressed out and scared shitless about eighty percent of the time." "You do an amazing job of hiding that fact," Holden replied. — James S.A. Corey

Tshepo reckons that it is inevitable that one's circle of friends will become smaller as one grows older. He reasons that when we begin we are similar, like two glasses of water sitting side by side on a clean tray. There is very little that differentiates us. We are simple beings whose interests do not extend beyond playing touch and kicking balls.
However, like the two glasses of water forgotten on a tray in the reading room, we start to collect bits. Bits of fluff, bits of a broken beetle wing, bits of bread, bits of pollen, bits of shed epithelial cells, bits of hair, bits of toilet paper, bits of airborne fungal organisms, bits of bits. All sorts of bits. No two combinations the same. Just like with the glasses of water, Environment, jealous of our fundamentality, bombards our basic minds with complexity. So we become frighteningly dissimilar, until there is very little that holds us together. — Kopano Matlwa