Foetid Quotes & Sayings

The most precious things in life are not those you get for money. — Albert Einstein

Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius."
The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up.
But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible
villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word — Brenda Ueland

We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy that they have in Iraq, quite honestly. — Vladimir Putin

And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time and space without you. — Tim Winton

Once upon a time, a man came from the sky and killed my wife. Beside him now, I walk on a mountain that floats over our world. — Pierce Brown

I sat down in a chair by the bed. The house got altogether still again, and I thought he was asleep. Just ever so quietly I reached over and laid my hand on his shoulder.

He said, 'I love you too, Hannah."

He didn't last long after that. Death had become his friend. They say that people, if they want to, can let themselves slip away when the time comes. I think that is what Nathan did. He was not false or greedy. When the time came to go, he went. — Wendell Berry

Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better. — Steve Jobs

I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

Barbara Fredrickson, a researcher at the University of North Carolina and perhaps the world's leading expert on the subject, describes the ten most common positive emotions: "joy, gratitude, serenity, interest, hope, pride, amusement, inspiration, awe, and love. — Shawn Achor

I accept myself unconditionally right now — Louise Hay

In America, anybody can be president.
That's one of the risks you take. — Adlai E. Stevenson II

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself. — Dogen

Be warned, then: the collected volumes of this series will contain frozen mountains, foetid swamps, hostile foreigners, hostile fellow countrymen, the occasional hostile family member, bad decisions, misadventures in orienteering, diseases of an unromantic sort, and a plenitude of mud. — Marie Brennan

If passed by the U.N. and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the U.N. Small Arms Treaty would almost certainly force the United States to ... create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation. — Paul Broun

It's a good story,' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.'
'Please,' I said.
And then he did. — Hanya Yanagihara