Lucas De Groot Quotes & Sayings

Every kilogram of beef requires 100,000 liters of water to produce. By comparison, a kilogram of wheat requires just 900 liters, and a kilogram of potatoes just 500 liters. — T. Colin Campbell

Oh my God ...
Xhex's heart stopped as she looked at him in the mirror. Across his upper back, in a glorious spread of black ink ... in a declaration that didn't whisper but shouted ... in a billboard-size front with flourishes ...
Her name in the Old Language. — J.R. Ward

No punching?" he asked.
"No."
"No kicking?"
"No."
"How about arm wrestling?"
"No. And before you ask, we've avoided Slug Bug, Slap Bets, and any and all Dance-Offs."
Fate Succumbs — Tammy Blackwell

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No, I don't believe it," Joseph said. "From listening to my father and grandfather talk about El Shaddai, I think he's different from the gods of Egypt. I think that none of us could ever be good enough for God. I think of Him as being so good that a human can't even enter His presence. A man would die if he did. I think God's merciful, Rashidi. I think he forgives us because he loves us, just as we forgive our children because we love them.
"Rashidi's eyes brightened. "A God that loves people! Now there's a new thought! — Gilbert Morris

I told you it was kicks. Everybody's kicks, man! — Jack Kerouac

It's not what I thought it would be, but it's alright, too. -- High King Peter in Prince Caspian, written by C.S. Lewis — C.S. Lewis

Independent? Bosh. That's just another word for selfish. It's stiff-backed people like you who end up being the biggest burdens. — Anne Tyler

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope. — John F. Kennedy

Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse. — Timothy Noah

He stared at her a moment longer, then laughed softly. "I wouldn't love you if you were any weaker," he said, and let go of her. — Rosamund Hodge

When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn't any reclaiming it or revising it. — Gregory Maguire

If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick. — Pamela Anderson

I'm not about love, but in this moment, I wish that I were. — Brenna Yovanoff