Makstar Quotes & Sayings

My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution. — Karen Traviss

Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value. — Wm. Paul Young

Today, in a world with instant access to Google, we rely on the electronic web to supply everything we need, from historical facts to word definitions and spellings as well as extended quotations. All of us who use a computer are aware of the shock of inner poverty that we suddenly feel when deprived (by a virus or other disaster) of our mental crutches even just for a day or a week. Plato is right: memory has been stripped from us, and all we possess is an external reminder of what we have lost, enabling us to pretend to a wisdom and an inner life we no longer possess in ourselves.13 — Stratford Caldecott

Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth. — Warren Buffett

Tiredness turns any place into your own bed! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow. — Mahatma Gandhi

My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited. — Brian Dennehy

In the battle of faith, money is usually the last stronghold to fall. — Ronald Dunn

They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles. — Charles Dickens

What you fight weakens you; what you cooperate with strengthens you. — Wayne W. Dyer

Well, the title "An Inconvenient Truth" is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don't seem to accept the truth. — Al Gore

I can't believe so much media attention is being paid to Fernando Torres and his loss of form, when the answer is staring us all in the face. It's his hair. His moping and ineffectual performances began just in time for the World Cup, which took place just after he substituted his dodgy blonde locks for a more serious brunette do — Pepe Reina