Manrico Select Quotes & Sayings

your balance sheet is an indication of how much you have served others ~ in terms of their standards, their values, their desires. Don't ever forget that happiness is relative. Your idea of what's good for someone else may not be shared in the slightest by that someone.
Understand, too, that I am not saying you ought to be considerate of others or that it is ethical to make people happy. It is a simple fact of life that if you do not make people happy, they aren't going to do business with you ~ on any basis. — Harry Browne

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear. — John Sladek

Her impending spinsterhood must be bothering her more than she realized if a servant was catching her attention in such a way. Of course, he was a very nicely put together servant. — Kristi Ann Hunter

He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing — Johnny Rich

Some believe they can,
Some believe that they cannot.
Both are clearly right — J. Benson

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else. — Catherine Deneuve

Look at me, making one of your dreams come true. You and your Norm truck driving around Normville."
"You're practically a god. — Kasie West

If you can't be beautiful or handsome, be rich. — Bhavik Sarkhedi

The form of the Gothic novel also implicitly contested the claims of Realism to reflect the world directly by showing how artificial its structure was. — Michael Richardson

High School is the place where poetry goes to die. — Billy Collins

Patients must be willing to give up their maladaptive coping styles in order to change. For example, patients who continue surrendering to the schema - by remaining in destructive relationships or by not setting limits in their personal or work lives -perpetuate the schema and are not able to make significant progress in therapy. — Jeffrey E. Young

Discussion question: Do you think Julie should fuck the warlord? Why or why not? — B.J. Novak

Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling. — Walter Kirn

The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested, they yet enjoyed comparative rest. At the commencement of the sixteenth century their churches numbered two hundred in Bohemia and Moravia. — Ezra Hall Gillett