Lingatan Quotes & Sayings

That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't. — Katherine Center

His voice was soft and sweet as molasses; but my mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something that will get the results they want. — Patricia Briggs

The notion of mental accounts is absent in traditional economic theory, which holds that wealth in general, and money in particular, should be fungible: That is, $100 in roulette winnings, $100 in salary, and a $100 tax refund should have the same significance and value to you, since each C-note could buy the same number of downloads from iTunes or the same number of burgers at McDonald's. Likewise, $100 kept under the mattress should invoke the same feelings or sense of wealth as $100 in a bank account or $100 in U.S. Treasury securities (ignoring the fact that money in the bank, or in T-bills, is safer than cash under the bed). If money and wealth are fungible, there should be no difference in the way we spend gambling winnings or salary. — Gary Belsky

I'm the best corner in the game! — Richard Sherman

I never drop a player I only make changes. — Bill Shankly

The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies. — Dick Cheney

Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it. — Teju Cole

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us — Stephen Hawking

The less we know the more we suspect — Josh Billings

We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are. — Kathryn Harrison

Tomorrow ... don't remind me I said this. I won't want to talk about it, but tonight ... keep me safe. — Nyrae Dawn

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane. — John Green

I am not God but something similar — Roberto Duran

I gaped at her before turning to gape at the rest of my family. Gaping seemed like the only real answer. If they were going to have to identify my body by my dental records, I was going to make sure they all got a good look at my teeth. — Seanan McGuire