Fanciful Flights Quotes & Sayings

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles. — Mark Twain

He looked at her, but he was only a shadow now. Livia gave him a warning look. He shook his head sadly and in total defeat. Standing in the house of a man who'd brought him food, with his daughter holding his hand, seemed to break some sort of honor code for Blake.
Livia felt her heart beating in her ears. "Don't give up on me. Please," she said softly. — Debra Anastasia

A shared history does not entitle you to a future, my friend. — Renee Ahdieh

Write what readers want to read, which isn't necessarily what you want to write. — Nicholas Sparks

One thing, though," Qhuinn murmured.
"What?"
The voice that came out his throat was unlike anything he'd ever heard from himself before. "If any guy breaks your heart or treats you like shit, I will bust him apart with my bare hands and leave his broken, bloody body for the sun."
Blay's laughter rumbled around the tiled walls. "Of course you will
"
"I'm dead fucking serious."
Blay's blue eyes shot over his shoulder.
"If there are any who dare to hurt you," Qhuinn growled in the Old Language, "I shall see them staked afore me and shall leave their bodies in ruin. — J.R. Ward

Of the seventy-five names, an astonishing fourteen are Americans born within nine years of one another in the mid-nineteenth century. Think about that for a moment. Historians start with Cleopatra and the — Malcolm Gladwell

[W]e are not morally bad people for taking carbon and turning it into the energy that offers life to humanity in a world that would otherwise be brutal (think of life before modernity). On the contrary, we are good people for doing so. — John Christy

It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant — Suzanne Collins

I beg of you ... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise. — Gustav Mahler

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them. — Marco Rubio

The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job . In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community. — Peter Drucker

You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go. — Joy Bryant

Night is the other half of life, and the better half. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Berkshire has the lowest turnover of any major company in the U.S.The Walton family owns more of Wal-Mart than Buffett owns of Berkshire, so it isn't because of large holdings. It's because we have a really unusual shareholder body that thinks of itself as owners and not holders of little pieces of paper. — Charlie Munger