Lortie Et Martin Quotes & Sayings

Oh for women at sea to obviate the eternal crosscat-harpings,' he said to himself, 'to do away with the grumlinfuttocks, and to inject a little civilization, even of an equivocal nature, even at the risk of moral deviation. — Patrick O'Brian

When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty. — Colin Powell

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. — Alexandre Dumas

They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody! — Beatrice Sparks

When you check your own mind properly, you stop blaming others for your problems. — Thubten Yeshe

Then Kabul's dogs, who had developed a taste for human meat, would feast. All — Khaled Hosseini

Perhaps, when you leave your childhood behind too early and jump into adulthood, certain parts of you never fully grow up. They just become stunted child parts disguised in a grown-up body. — Angela Hoke

Culture is your operating system. — Terence McKenna

But I never did escape from this plot-driven world into a more congenial, subtly probable, innerly propelled narrative of my own devising
didn't make it to the airport, ...
and that was because in the taxi I remembered a political cartoon I'd seen in the British papers when I was living in London during the Lebanon war, a detestable cartoon of a big-nosed Jew, his hands meekly opened out in front of him and his shoulders raised in a shrug as though to disavow responsibility, standing atop a pyramid of dead Arab bodies. Purportedly a caricature of Menachem Begin, then prime minister of Israel, the drawing was, in fact, a perfectly realistic, unequivocal depiction of a kike as classically represented in the Nazi press. The cartoon was what turned me around. Barely ten minutes out of Jerusalem, I told the driver to take me back to the King David Hotel. — Philip Roth

No ... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly. — Octavia Butler

I comfortably and easily release the old and and welcome the new in my life. I am safe. — Louise Hay

A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everyone around us. — Orison Swett Marden

When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather. — Samuel Johnson

I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. — Ron Perlman

Everyone lies. They lie to the people they love; they lie to themselves. Once you admit it, it's not such a hard thing to live with. What is hard to live with is how far people will go to keep their lies alive. — Marshall Thornton