It Never Rains On National Day Quotes & Sayings

They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic. — Frank McCourt

She looked at me like I was stupid, the same look the girls in JC used to give me when I hadn't heard of the latest boy band, or turned up at Zouk wearing unfashionable clothes. — Jeremy Tiang

Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfill your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender. — Swami Vivekananda

Fit to govern? No, not fit to live. — William Shakespeare

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science. — Henry David Thoreau

Many years later, Sophia will think of this night, and how close she was to tears. She will wonder how she could have allowed herself to arrive there, but also feel a twinge of loss for the girl still capable of losing control. — Jeremy Tiang

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal. — George Will