Mcmordie Idioms Quotes & Sayings

Suppose a bad guy guesses the password for your throwaway Yahoo address. Now he goes to major banking and commerce sites and looks for an account registered to that email address. When he finds one, he clicks the 'forgot my password' button and a new one is sent - to your compromised email account. Now he's in a position to do you serious harm. — Barton Gellman

Sometimes parents don't know their children, he thought. But sometimes a parent knows her child better than anyone else, and — Henning Mankell

I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married. — Candace Bushnell

I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky. — Janice Mirikitani

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind. — James Baldwin

Poor or rich, black or white, quiet or naughty, mentally defective or sharp-witted, thin or fat, all children are great! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I remembered what Olaf always said: You must never give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way down. — Nancy Farmer

Let people say whatever they like, stick to your own convictions, and rest assured, the world will be at your feet. They say, "Have faith in this fellow or that fellow", but I say, "Have faith in yourself first", that's the way. Have faith in yourself-all power is in you-be conscious and bring it out. Say, "I can do everything." — Swami Vivekananda

The pros really like all the new people playing poker because they love the dead money; but when the money wins they don't like that very much at all. — Chris Moneymaker

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason — W.C. Fields

Want vs. What's Coming to You
As the Rolling Stones say,
You can't always get what you want ~
but God will always give you what's coming to you. — Beryl Dov

You might have noticed that I have been sending you used books. I have done this not to save money, but to make a point which is that a used book, unlike a used car, hasn't lost any of its initial value. A good story rolls of the lot into the hands of its new reader as smoothly as the day it was written. And there's another reason for these used paperbacks that never cost much even when new; I like the idea of holding a book that someone else has held, of eyes running over lines that have already seen the light of other eyes. That, in one image, is the community of readers, is the communion of literature. — Yann Martel

What if that was the fate of all of us, turned into the very basest of creatures, the very essence of evil? — Alexander Gordon Smith

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated. — Edward James Olmos

Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing. — Billy Joel