Maddix Automotive Quotes & Sayings

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return ... — Mary Catherine Bateson

Because if it was exceptional, it must be an exception, maybe even the exception that proved the rule. And the rule was that I would always be alone, and could never trust anyone. But my partnership with Dox didn't fit comfortably with that rule. And my relationship with Delilah suggested that Midori hadn't just been a one-off, either. So now, some wretched part of me was intent on turning Dox and Delilah into exceptions, too, so it could pat itself on the back and proclaim, "See? I told you so. — Barry Eisler

They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit. — George Eliot

Oh life to live, life already lived,
time that comes back in a swell of sea,
time that recedes without turning its head,
the past is not past, it is still passing by,
flowing silently into the next vanishing moment — Octavio Paz

Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Writing is acting on paper. — Lydia Anne Klima

There are only two things that I would do when there's change, either I stay and embrace it or I let go before I defeat its purpose. — Laarni Venus Marie Giango

I'll bet when aliens see the ring of garbage orbiting our planet they just keep going in the search for intelligent life — Johnny Moscato

As I got older, I got craftier and less obvious, but I've always put a lot of energy and effort into people liking me. That's why I've never understood the compliment "effortless." People love to say: "She just walked into the party, charming people with her effortless beauty." I don't understand that at all. What's so wrong with effort, anyway? It means you care. What about the girl who "walked into the party, her determination to please apparent on her eager face"? Sure, she might seem a little crazy, and, yes, maybe everything she says sounds like conversation starters she found on a website, but at least she's trying. Let's give her a shot! — Mindy Kaling