L4d2 Whitaker Quotes & Sayings

[In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at an average velocity of 50 m.p.h. As a source of power this compares favorably with 6,000 tons of water falling every second over Niagara Falls. I will not further anticipate some H. G. Wells of the future who will ring the antarctic with power-producing windmills; but the winds of the Antarctic have to be felt to be believed, and nothing is quite impossible to physicists and engineers. — Frank Debenham

Some people say that their pets will tell them when it's time to go. I don't believe that. No animal of mine has ever told me he was ready to die. I wish it were that simple. Dogs can communicate, but they cannot talk, nor do they think in our language or on our terms. — Jon Katz

Her reflection had hidden something from her.
This, Valkyrie thought to herself, is probably not a good sign. — Derek Landy

Walking is the number one exercise for your feet as well as your body. Barefoot walking is the ideal. — Stephanie Tourles

I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment. — Christine Lagarde

Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us. — Ray Dalio

His height forced her to stand on her toes. For a woman who'd been taller than most of the boys in her class in high school, that particular physical trait provoked a flurry of sensual images to flash through her mind. Sex against a wall. It was a possibility. And given the breadth of his shoulders, she imagined he'd hold her up just fine. Oh, glorious day. — Mia Sosa

Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain. — Marianne Williamson

Do not make me fuck you against this door, Lydia."
Everything inside me squeezed tight. "God, that sounds good. Let's do that."
"Shit. — Kylie Scott

Sometimes I cannot understand the things men do. The way they gnash and tear at one another - it's worse than wolves or foxes. — Janette Oke

I'm still a very big fan of Fiona Apple. — Brendon Urie

If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with casual or infrequent work. And then when you open up opportunities for people, you notice that these attitudes, orientations, habits and styles also change. — William Julius Wilson

The idea was flawed, of course," he said irritably. "Innately and fatally flawed. It depended on two of the human race's greatest myths: the possibility of permanence, and the simplicity of human nature. Both of which are all well and good in literature, but the purest fantasy outside the covers of a book. Our story should have stopped that night with the cold cocoa, the night we moved in: and they all lived happily ever after, the end. Inconveniently, however, real life demanded that we keep on living. — Tana French

Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes through that period carefully now thinks different things on different days. — Nicholson Baker

I guess because, well, just because it was able to evolve. When it couldn't be one thing anymore, it became something else and kept on living that way — Cherie Priest