Excerpt From Second Choice Quotes & Sayings

If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain? — Lewis Carroll

And as regards industrial enterprises there is little difference, from the psychological point of view, between those conducted by the state and those conducted by large private corporations. In either case there is a government which in fact, if not in intention, is remote from those whom it controls. It is only the members of the government, whether of a state or of a large corporation, who can retain the sense of individual initiative, and there is inevitably a tendency for governments to regard those who work for them more or less as they regard their machines, that is to say merely as necessary means. The desirability of smooth co-operation constantly tends to increase the size of units, and therefore to diminish the number of those who still possess the power of initiative. — Bertrand Russell

You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You've hit no traitor on the hip. You've dashed no cup from perjured lip. You've never turned the wrong to right. You've been a coward in the fight. — Charles Mackay

Laughing made me feel safe. I was not going to be enveloped by the seediness that coated this world like dust. — Joan Rivers

I was raised in a Catholic family, spent twelve years in parochial schools, and had extremely fond memories of my interactions with Catholic clergy. — Jennifer Haigh

She's just this character to you. Both of us are! And we always have been. You don't know what goes on in our heads. You don't know where we come from or who we are . . . Can you even tell the difference anymore between what you've written about her and who she really, truly is? — Kristopher Jansma

When the Word is stored in the heart, the individual finds it a wonderful power in preserving him from outbreaking sin. — Eric Christian Olsen

Power plants are an infrastructure backbone that I want to be seriously involved in; this is because the country is rapidly developing and has high demand for electricity. — Edwin Soeryadjaya

My brother-
"Fuck your brother." I squeezed the trigger. — Gena Showalter

The distance between the people who made the games and the people playing them wasn't that big. It was the spirit of independence. The programmers were a lot like you. — Jeff Minter

Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo. — U.G. Krishnamurti

He was transparent, the way holograms in films are transparent.Three dimensional, definitely really there and fucking ... transparent. — Ben Aaronovitch

in this Traffick they would frequently keep our goods and make no return, tell at last I was obliged to fire a Musquet ball Close past one man who had served us in this manner after which they observed a little more honisty and at length several of them came on board. — James Cook

I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library. — Karin Slaughter

I am the girl
you fool around with,
before you meet
the love of your life. — Sade Andria Zabala