Majoritys Decision Quotes & Sayings

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write. — Khaled Hosseini

Be A DBF! (dog's best friend) — Michele Patton

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed. — Julius Sterling Morton

I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person. — Lisa Kudrow

How far they came to perish here, these soldiers and these machines! What bizarre train of events brought youngsters from the Rhineland and Prussia, from the Scottish Highlands and London, from Australia and New Zealand, to butt at each other to the death with flame-spitting machinery in faraway Africa, in a setting as dry and lonesome as the moon?

But that is the hallmark of this war. No other war has ever been like it. This war rings the world.... Men fight as far from home as they can be transported, with courage and endurance that makes one proud of the human race, in horrible contrivances that make one ashamed of the human race. — Herman Wouk

A silly row which got out of hand. — Bill Vaughan

What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor? — Marcus Tullius Cicero

We could certainly use a detective. And I've got to hand it to you, Nancy - you sure can keep your head. — Carolyn Keene

Religion is a defense against the experience of God. — Carl Jung

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as a means of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter. — Thomas Paine

Everyone has a price," she said.
"But clearly not everyone has a soul, — Ruta Sepetys

If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer. — Elliott Erwitt

For every bandaged wound
I'll scrape another open — Adrienne Rich

The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject. — Swami Kriyananda

There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scholars all piously assure us that they're telling us the real truth about what really happened, but if you turn any competent historian over and look at his damp underside, you'll find a storyteller, and you can believe me when I tell you that no storyteller's ever going to tell a story without a few embellishments. Add to that the fact that we've all got assorted political and theological preconceptions that are going to color what we write, and you'll begin to realize that no history of any event is entirely reliable ... — David Eddings