Hurricane Sandy Eyewitness Quotes & Sayings

Being genius does not necessarily mean knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification; but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner and courageously, exhibiting the latent deft to the admiration of the masses — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you were in a bar, would you ever go up to a guy or girl and repeat the word "hey" without getting a response? Would you ever go up to a woman you met two minutes ago and beg her to show you one of your boobs? And do you really want to bone someone who responds to this? — Aziz Ansari

People say many things, but at the end of the day people can say what they want. — Patricia Velasquez

It's strange, but once you learn to fight, you seem to attract enemies ... Sooner or later, those who master the art of combat must end up fighting. — Nahoko Uehashi

Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb bookkeeper; we will be held responsible for every bit of our economic folly. — Thomas Berry

Fill what is empty; empty what is full — Davidji

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it. — William Faulkner

Shall we try to find a common basis by asking of ourselves what ought to be the chief aim of the legislator in making laws and in the organization of a State, - what is the greatest good, and what is the greatest evil, and then consider whether our previous description has the stamp of the good or of the evil? By all means. Can there be any greater evil than discord and distraction and plurality where unity ought to reign? or any greater good than the bond of unity? There cannot. And there is unity where there is community of pleasures and pains - where all the citizens are glad or grieved on the same occasions of joy and sorrow? No doubt. Yes; — Plato

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. — Mark Twain

For it was extraordinary to think that they had been capable of going on living all these years when she had not though of them more than once all that time. How eventful her own life had been, during those same years. Yet perhaps Carrie Manning had not thought about her either. The thought was strange and distasteful. — Virginia Woolf

Your parents are your first conception of love, the first object of your love. You love them wholly and unconditionally, and expect that back. When you don't get that in return, it colors everything. — J. Kenner

Sin also affects the conscience, until one becomes slow to detect the approach of sin. — Billy Graham

But it seems that the most beautiful women always go for the most horrible shits, the most obvious fakes. — Charles Bukowski

I've tried Oculus Rift; I've played with the Steam VR rig. Both are mind-blowing. In a traditional video game setting, in a first-person shooter, you can see a tower in the distance. You can walk up to that tower and use your controller to look up. — Ramez Naam

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. — Evelyn Waugh