Ft86 Speed Quotes & Sayings

The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people. — Jim Butcher

Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire. — P. J. O'Rourke

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause. — Homer

History is barbaric to me because it omits all traces of the personal. — Marty Rubin

I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play. — Eddie Trunk

Madame Boulle, in spite of her experiences among the highest English families, was amazed at the coolness shown by Lady Emily. A grandchild in danger of drowning, a young man in danger of a pneumonia and a bronchitis, and she was entirely calm, not even impressed by Pierre's bravery. Bravery in the face of danger, Madame Boulle explained, was the characteristic of her family. — Angela Thirkell

We're all moving to a world where the forces of nature come closer together to technology. — Shilo Shiv Suleman

If you want to be rich, never give up. People tend to give up. If you have persistence, you will come out ahead of most people. More importantly, you will learn. When you do something, you might fail. But that's not because you're a failure. It's because you have not learnt enough. Do it differently each time. One day, you will do it right. Failure is your friend. — Jordan Belfort

Then a faintness came over her; she recalled the Viscount who had waltzed with her at Vaubyessard, and his beard exhaled like this air an odour of vanilla and citron, and mechanically she half-closed her eyes the better to breathe it in. But — Gustave Flaubert

And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright. — Robert Burns

I like boring golf. That's kind of what butters my bread. — Zach Johnson

No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so after his day's work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load. — Theodore Roosevelt

Anger is fire. It burns inside. It destroys. — Jonathan Morris

flying robots from an alien power regularly strike down from the skies and kill Pakistani citizens. — Mohsin Hamid

The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop. — Jeffrey Bernard