Laurestine Quotes & Sayings

It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents. — Lord Chesterfield

are less confident in a choice when they are asked to produce more arguments to support it — Daniel Kahneman

Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation! — Publilius Syrus

We were dancers and drummers and standers and jugglers, and there was nothing anyone needed to accept or tolerate. We celebrated. — Bill Konigsberg

The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U.S. conspiracy against us ... stabbing Iraq in the back with a poisoned dagger. — Saddam Hussein

He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others. — Sharon Shinn

Brotha needed to buy a vowel and rent a verb, then get a roll of duct tape slapped on that broken English. — Eric Jerome Dickey

When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood and marrow used to be, pushing every other feeling out as it fills you from your feet to your scalp. It leaves you with nothing. — Alexander Gordon Smith

That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind. — Terence McKenna

My plan is to continue teaching many more years than the 32 years I've already enjoyed and continue writing, and promoting my books and websites if it's God will. — Ana Monnar

I consider all things a work of fiction, even myself. — Nancy B. Brewer

And in any case ... there are no more supernatural noises nowadays ... — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam