Lupercio Redding Quotes & Sayings

Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul? — Oscar Wilde

When they made decisions, people did not seek to maximize utility. They sought to minimize regret. — Michael Lewis

It is God's omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared. — David Jeremiah

...the Evil Spirit delights more to dwell in an artful body, than in one that has no cunning to work upon. — James Fenimore Cooper

Cave basilischium! The rex of serpenti, tant pleno of poison that it all shines dehors! Che dicam, il veleno, even the stink comes dehors and kills you! Poisons you ... And it has black spots on his back, and a head like a coq, and half goes erect over the terra, and half on the terra like the other serpents. And it kills the bellula ... '
'The bellula?'
'Oc! Parvissimum animal, just a bit plus longue than the rat, and also called the musk-rat. And so the serpe and the botta. And when they bite it, the bellula runs to the fenicula or to the cicerbita and chews it, and comes back to the battaglia. And they say it generates through the oculi, but most say they are wrong.'
I asked him what he was doing with a basilisk and he said that was his business. — Umberto Eco

I discovered that private things were mostly sour. They sat spoiling in the corners of your heart for so long that by the time you acknowledged them you were dealing with something rancid. — Tarryn Fisher

To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it has no horse-power. Sometimes I think that perhaps the most competent business men, and lawyers and doctors, who must be at the office at nine o'clock every morning, do not realize this and take more credit for initiative and industry than they deserve. And it is why all the bright women of the world, who if more were expected of them, might do important work, but who instead have a chronic feeling of ineffectiveness and sloth. — Brenda Ueland

Strike had never wanted children; it was one of the things on which he and Charlotte had always agreed, and it had been one of the reasons other relationships over the years had foundered. Lucy deplored his attitude, and the reasons he gave for it; she was always miffed when he stated life aims that differed from hers, as though he were attacking her decisions and choices. — Robert Galbraith

I told myself that if I ever make it to the big leagues that I would be the one to appreciate the fans. Take a little time out to sign autographs and shake their hands and say hello to them. — Rickey Henderson

It is only the quietest one who can hear all the voices of the world; only the shadows can see all the lights! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There's no debt. There never has been. We are friends. — Davis Bunn

When I get married it will be for keeps. — Natalie Wood

Interested in some spices," said Rook. "I'm just mad about saffron. — Richard Castle