Globalised Singapore Quotes & Sayings

Mom always liked to say that we hardly ever know the decisions we make that change our lives, mostly because they are little ones. You took this bus instead of that one and ended up meeting your soul mate, that kind of thing. But there was no doubt in my mind that this was one of those life-changing moments. — Rachel Hawkins

Take my advice, dear reader, don't talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram. — Joseph P. Farrell

For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation. — John F. Kennedy

My idea of a good night out is staying in. — Martin Freeman

A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul. — Camille Paglia

But I swore to myself that we'd find our friends and our ymbryne, no matter the cost, even if there were only bodies to recover - even if it meant adding our own to the pile. — Ransom Riggs

In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare. — Susan Hill

One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun. — Ann Landers

You have just got to face the facts, don't you? I face it head-on. I knew what I was coming in to. I didn't make the impact I hoped for and I believed in. — Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

High tax rates distort economic decision making, and our corporate income tax rate is one of the highest in the world. — Jason Chaffetz

I believe in some sense much akin to the belief of faith, that I noticed, felt, or underwent what I describe - but it may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the worst remembered and so offer the least resistance to that process by which we mold them nearer and nearer to an ideal which is fundamentally artistic, or at least nonfactual; so it may be that some of these events I describe never occurred at all, but only should have, and that others had not the shades and flavors - for example, of jealousy or antiquity or shame - that I have later unconsciously chosen to give them ... — Gene Wolfe

I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart. — S.C. Stephens

When she lay curled against him, her skin dewed from passion, there was still that small, cold place inside of her where the heat hadn't quite reached. — J.D. Robb

Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good. — George Farquhar