Forfeited Def Quotes & Sayings

We make our public servants jump through quite a few hoops, you know. We get hysterical if they accept a $50 lunch from a lobbyist. We get hysterical if they accept a ride on some corporate jet. — Christopher Buckley

We all experience pain and suffering, but it is not the quintessential nature of life. Just because the earth turns away from the sun and night occurs doesn't mean that the sun isn't always shining. It might be hard to see sometimes, but goodness and divine beauty can always be found if you adjust your vision just right. — John Friend

I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books. — Ray Bradbury

The origins of my career as a peace mediator can be found from my childhood years. I was born in the city of Viipuri, then still part of Finland. We lost Viipuri when the Soviet Union attacked my country. Along with 400,000 fellow Karelians, I became an eternally displaced person in the rest of Finland. — Martti Ahtisaari

When I get older, I don't think I'll like to have wrinkles, or a big jelly belly. I cannot have it. — Adriana Lima

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation. — A. C. Benson

Risk is the unique path to success. — Adria J. Cimino

It's possible there are no two books in publishing history more dissimilar than 'Human Traces' and 'Devil May Care.' And that was really the attraction of it. — Sebastian Faulks

If you run out of dough, all you knead is love. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

To open door to hatred is to open one's spirit to misery — Sunday Adelaja

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills. — Sherwood Anderson

Smell is the mute sense, the one without words. — Diane Ackerman

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down. — Sam Neill

If I breathe you in and you breathe me out, I swear we can breathe forever. I swear I'll find summer in your winter and spring in your autumn and always, hands at the ends of your fingers, arms at the ends of your shoulders and I swear, when we run out of forever, when we run out of air, your name will be the last word that my lungs make air for. — Iain Thomas