Guddalu Quotes & Sayings

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure. — Ross Macdonald

I was really struck at how hard he was working to make everyone around him feel better in the face of his own death, — Bryan Stevenson

I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to. — Rodney Dangerfield

what if there was an uncanny moment when all the birds were grounded from Cape Town to Juneau, and everywhere between--all feathers frozen in a universal stutter, so quick as to make a snail of light, and even Stephen Hawking's mind would miss it? — Kristen Henderson

I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it. — Louis Sachar

You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there. — Brian Mulroney

Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus louse, the plague flea, and the yellow-fever mosquito. Civilizations have retreated from the plasmodium of malaria, and armies have crumbled into rabbles under the onslaught of cholera spirilla, or of dysentery and typhoid bacilli. Huge areas have bee devastated by the trypanosome that travels on the wings of the tsetse fly, and generations have been harassed by the syphilis of a courtier. War and conquest and that herd existence which is an accompaniment of what we call civilization have merely set the stage for these more powerful agents of human tragedy. — Hans Zinsser

We find common bonds in the shared details of the human journey, not in the divergent conclusions we draw from those details. — Parker J. Palmer

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. — Honore De Balzac

The Fed is the biggest enemy of this economy. In fact, Ben Bernanke, as far as I'm concerned, he's public enemy No. 1. We're never going to have a recovery while this guy's in charge. — Peter Schiff