Fiocard Quotes & Sayings

It was Tark's experience that TV addicts were usually addicted to something else as well. Food, booze, drugs, sex, money, take your pick. — T. J. MacGregor

The young man who appeared at the mouth of the alley was pale in
the lamplight - paler even than he usually was, which was quite pale indeed. — Cassandra Clare

Success is not about having a lot but about making the most of what you have. But success alone however will not necessarily make you fulfilled or happy. It is how you share your achievements with others to make their lives better that will. This is called greatness. It is about living life with a purpose beyond self and family. — Tony Meloto

I don't have much but I take all I got and that's what I give, what I get in return is the money I earn and the life I live. — Wiz Khalifa

I didn't mean to reopen closing wounds. — Veronica Roth

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. — Brendan Behan

When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes. — Mary Roach

Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in rock in hollows on mountains, which water no doubt deposited there enveloped in sticky mud, and which were prevented by coldness and dryness of the stone from petrifying completely. Very striking evidence of this kind is found in the stones of Paris, in which one very often meets round shells the shape of the moon. — Albertus Magnus

Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other dainties; bring us a whole sheep, serve a goat and forty-year old mead! And plenty of vodka, not vodka with all sorts of fancies, not with raisins and flavorings, but pure foaming vodka, that hisses and bubbles like mad. — Nikolai Gogol

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions. — Frank Kermode

We must suffer in order to go to God. We forget this truth far too often. — Madeleine Sophie Barat

When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and suddenly the officer is finding all manner of exotic contraband like the nature of God and identity, and while he can't deny that they're there, he can't for the life of him remember putting them there. In the end, a play is not the product of an idea; an idea is the product of a play. — Tom Stoppard

The growth of equality ... calls for decisions, mechanisms and processes directed to a better distribution of wealth, the creation of sources of employment and an integral promotion of the poor, which goes beyond a simple welfare mentality. — Pope Francis

The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self. — Asaram