Extricating Patient Quotes & Sayings

A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting. — Lemony Snicket

Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money. — Tim Witherspoon

its evident wish to be for ever a sound and only a sound in the thickest centre of untravelled woods. — C.S. Lewis

If you want to be a cop, it's not for everybody, no question about it, but there's no place like New York City. — Raymond Kelly

It may be your soul that I love, but I'm pretty keen on its vessel, too. — Laini Taylor

Make today the BEST day of your PAST. — Joe Goodrich

It's the worst feeling, coming back after a performance when you are on a real high, and you go back alone to an apartment or a hotel room. People think we sit in hotels and eat bon bons. But the lifestyle can be very stressful. — Sondra Radvanovsky

doctrine, the normal Christian safeguards which protect one against the attacks of fallen spirits are removed or neutralized, and the passiveness and "openness" which characterize the new cults literally open one up to be used by demons. Studies of the experiences of many of the "consciousness cults" show that there is a regular progression in them from experiences which at first are "good" or "neutral" to experiences which become strange and frightening and in the end clearly demonic. — Seraphim Rose

As you know I am not of Barsoom; your ways are not my ways, and I can only act in the future as I have in the past, in accordance with the dictates of my conscience and guided by the standards of mine own people. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence of our actual lives. Similarly, we usually spend our waking hours trying to be sure of things - of our decisions, our ideas, our choices. We so want to be right. But we walk by right foot and left foot. — Jane Hirshfield

You run?"
"Yup. I have a love affair going on with food — Toni Aleo

There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move. — Felicity Kendal