Librarything Giveaways Quotes & Sayings

Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming. — B.C. Forbes

Another memory comes, not of the final time I saw Ligeia but a week before she disappeared, something mundane yet vivid. The mystery of memory. There's surely some scientific explanation for why the brain decides Don't let go of this. I've read novels and cannot recall a single character's name and yet I remember a red bicycle glanced once in a hardware-store window, a mole on a stranger's chin, a kitchen match lying beside a hearth. These remain, as does Ligeia reaching into her locker, a book crooked in her arm sliding free. — Ron Rash

I don't even pretend we can occupy the Lib Dem holier-than-thou, hands-entirely-clean-and-entirely-empty-type stance. No, we are getting our hands dirty, and inevitably and totally understandably we are being accused of being just like any other politicians. — Nick Clegg

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war. — Gerry Adams

We believe that we decide. We do make decisions. But the deeper decisions come from another part of our being that we're not particularly aware of yet. — Frederick Lenz

Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation. — Greg Kinnear

People's minds can't be a complete blank. Human beings' emotions are not strong or consistent enough to sustain a vacuum. — Haruki Murakami

Hawk looked at Tony without speaking. He had three gunshot wounds and still could barely stand, but — Robert B. Parker

When I was 12, my dad took me to see 'You Got Served.' I walked out a whole different person. — Shameik Moore

You know Karen, everybody thinks serial killers are ignorant, but we are actually extremely intelligent. — Mary Burton King

What you've done isn't the only thing that defines who you are. Words are just as powerful as action. They can aspire action in others, can't they? — Erica Crouch

What all this tells me is that a large proportion of the people in positions of power across Australia - politicians and media pundits included - just don't consider the beating down of women to be of any consequence. Half the time they won't even acknowledge it, let alone take a stand against it, preferring instead to gaslight women and pretend it's all in their head. Are these the kinds of people we want making decisions for us? The ones who think mockery about women's genitals is bad when it targets no one in particular, but OK when it targets the Prime Minister? — Clementine Ford