Laconically Define Quotes & Sayings

You can make a very heavy and kind of dangerous 3-way shot glass out of a bowling ball. — Demetri Martin

There are thirty kids there, too," Justineau adds. "And most of your men. What are we going to do? Just walk away from them?" "That's exactly what we're going to do," Parks tells them. "If you shut up, I'll tell you why. I've been up on that radio every ten or fifteen minutes since we stopped. Not only is there no answer from the base, there's no answer full stop. Nobody else got out of there. Or if they did, they got out without wheels or comms, which means they might just as well be on another planet as far as we're concerned. There's no way to get their attention right now without getting the junkers bouncing at us too. If we meet them on the road, that's great. Otherwise, we're alone, and the only sensible thing to do is to head for home fires. For Beacon." Caldwell — M.R. Carey

Be true to yourself and you will never fail. — Stephen LaBerge

Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better. — Derek Sivers

I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of. — Kangana Ranaut

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat. — John Steinbeck

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life. — Voltaire

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. — Charles Caleb Colton

Many persons swear by positive thinking, and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases. — Srikumar Rao

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth. — Alan Dershowitz

You all want to be the sea. But you're not the sea, you're just a raindrop. — Stephen Kelman

I would say luck and preparation. I didn't dominate WWE when I first started, it was a slow process. I wasn't labelled the golden child from day one, it's been a very long road. — John Cena

Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures. — Friedrich Nietzsche

History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs. — Bill Nye

What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up. — Edward Abbey