Expatiated Quotes & Sayings

Let me tell you something, I didn't become a lawyer because I like the law, the law sucks. It's boring, but it can also be used as a weapon. You want to bankrupt somebody? Cost him everything he's worked for? Make his wife leave him, even make his kids cry ... yeah, we can do that. — Richard Fish

When we left, the sun was taking its evening dip, slipping down into the ocean inch by inch like a fat woman afraid of the water. — Budd Schulberg

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust. — Alexander Pope

I believe in the writer's mission. He receives it from the word, which carries its suffering and its hope within it. He questions the words, which question him. He accompanies the words, which accompany him. The initiative is shared, as if spontaneous. — Edmond Jabes

There's a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but trying not to push too far. The best any of us can do is to tread that line carefully. — Alex Honnold

I can't make two records at the same time. Whatever I do, I have to concentrate on and put everything in, because if I don't, I'm just not good. — Steve Lillywhite

Be good. Be a nice girl. Don't ruin our happy family. — Laura Wiess

I love running in Europe, man, running at places like Zurich and Crystal Palace where the crowd is so knowledgeable and appreciative. — Maurice Greene

The experience of happiness is a direct means of replenishing life energy and revitalizing the mind. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times. — James Balog

Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites. — Jim Butcher

The world is like a mirror; it reflects (shows) everything exactly the way it is. If there is a defect, it will reflect (show) that defect. — Dada Bhagwan

The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent. — Jane Austen