Eugenides Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since. — Cy Young

Ask not the elves for advice, because they will tell you both 'yes' and 'no'. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it. — Christopher Heyerdahl

He who keeps his cool best wins. — Norman Cousins

Moral vanity is the snare of good people. — Margaret Deland

A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy. — Bob Beauprez

He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over. — Mark Twain

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges. — Alistair Cooke

In chess, without the king, the other pieces would all be "dead", so their existance is supported by the king, but they need to serve the king with their capacity for action in order to have a good game. — Roumen Bezergianov

All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine. — William Cowper

I have watched education become more a privilege of the rich than the basic necessity that it must be if civilized society is to survive. I have watched as convenience, profit, and inertia excused greater and more dangerous environmental degradation. I have watched poverty, hunger, and disease become inevitable for more and more people. — Octavia E. Butler

From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no reality. — Kate Bernheimer

The self. What is the self? Everything you are, without others, without friends or strangers or lovers or children or streets to walk or food to eat or mirrors in which to see yourself. But are you anyone without others? — Don DeLillo

If you are in danger, if your hearts are confused, turn to Mary; she is our comfort, our help; turn towards her and you will be saved. — Frances Xavier Cabrini

You can't change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn't make the mistake that might have saved your life a day later. We don't get those choices. The story is what got you here, and embracing its truth is what makes the outcome bearable. — Gail Caldwell