Dumathoins Quotes & Sayings

Even if you couldn't see it beneath the surface, molecules were bonding, energy pushing up slowly, as something worked do hare, all alone to grow. — Sarah Dessen

Someone cold, politically calculating with no moral compass who can't be trusted. That's what polling and discussions with voters indicate [about Hillary Clinton]. — Tamara Keith

Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark
well-intentioned, but ineffective. — William Randolph Hearst

In my opinion FOX is known for being a network that just advertises, and that's pretty much how they get their viewers. — Alia Shawkat

That year, a middle-aged acquaintance asked me what my favorite book was and I said "On the Road." He smiled, said, "That was my favorite book at sixteen." At the time , I thought he was patronizing me, that it was going to be my favorite book forever and ever, amen. But he was right. As an adult, I'm more of a Gatsby girl-more tragic, more sad, just as interested in what America costs as what it has to offer. — Sarah Vowell

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. — Alexander Pope

[O]pen platforms and experimental amateurs ... eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros ... Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether. — Cory Doctorow

When Zoe didn't answer he glanced over to find her watching him with an almost pitying expression. He shot her a scowl. Obviously she didn't realize that SEALs didn't deal well with pity. — Kaylea Cross

If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn't have to be validated. — Herman Koch

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it — Flannery O'Connor

The more love you get that you don't deserve, the more you can give it out without wanting anything back. — Abby Rosser

It had taken time for him to realize that no one was truly self-sufficient, and that those who thought they were merely took refuge in a form of weakness, the weakness of being unable to ask for help and guidance and thus find greater strength in reliance on close friends and comrades. — Simon Hawke

To be "overworked" or "overcommitted," in this sense, is a sign of value and a bid for status (and perhaps a preemptive strike to fend off requests to do further work). — John Trimbur