Genevan 25 Quotes & Sayings

The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits. — Smedley Butler

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. — Audrey Hepburn

What do you seek in these shelves? — Robin Sloan

I don't care if I'm loved back, I still want to love someone.Someone, from the bottom of my heart ... Straightforward, unwavering ... It seems like such a simple thing, so then why ... Must it be so incredibly hard? — Ai Yazawa

I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky. — Devon Sawa

Maybe attraction was aligned in heaven before our birth because there was no other way to explain my feelings. There were millions of boys on the earth. Why did it feel so strong? — Belinda Jeffrey

Ares sighed "What are the three words said most often in our house?"
"Not tonight, Ares?" Than offered.
"Funny," Ares growled. "Cara never says that. — Larissa Ione

The worst thing the nineteen sixties did to this country was introduce drugs to rednecks, — Ron Rash

Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. But generally we are better at wielding the handbag than the bayonet. — Margaret Thatcher

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching. — Fulton J. Sheen

There's something satisfying, I think,' Evans said, 'about the idea of light travelling for millions of years through space and just at the right moment as it reaches Earth someone looks at the right bit of sky and sees it. It just seems right that an event of that magnitude should be witnessed. — Bill Bryson

Life is a scream,but we will all die laughing one day! — Esmeralda Plangesis

Isaac was still clinging to the lectern. He started to cry. He pressed his forehead down to the podium and I watched his shoulders shake, and then finally, he said, 'Goddamn it, Augustus, editing your own eulogy.'
'Don't swear in the Literal Heart of Jesus,' Gus said.
'Goddamn it, Isaac said again. — John Green

It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the electing of presidents for 200 years when they've had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run. — Gore Vidal