Misfoutune Quotes & Sayings

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close. — David Petraeus

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. — Alfred North Whitehead

The Health Care Compact is a way for states to protect their residents from the top-down, one-size-fits-all health care 'solutions' that have been imposed from Washington D.C., including Obamacare. — James Lankford

I never stopped believing in my ability or what I was doing. I want to pass that sense of faith and perseverance on to others. — Vantile Whitfield

Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters. — Christopher Paolini

What is he planning to do with that quarter? Hurl it at my face and hope to put an eye out? With Romeo anything can become a weapon-love, trust ... loose change. — Stacey Jay

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good. — Richard Russo

What drives me, and what always has, is that I am still looking for my place. — Gigi Ruf

It's not easy to speak of nonexistence, even if you've already commissioned your tomb. — Hilary Mantel

When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became strictly a feminine place. She stood with her hands on her hips, stoically accepting the absence of old Boston Celtics coasters and the tangle of fishing poles, the old dartboard from a Scots pub, the toolbox and downhill skis, the silky patterned ties which sat in the base of one box like a writing mass of snakes. Without these things, one tended to notice the bright eyelet curtains, the vase filled with yawning crocuses, a needlepoint pillow ... Overall, the house looked much like her apartment had eight years ago, before she had met him. — Jodi Picoult

In the real world of competition, the players want to compete and they want to compete at the very highest level. — Vince McMahon

After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: I came, I saw, I conquered. — Plutarch

The second I spotted him in the crows I knew this wasn't going to be some sort of warm and fuzzy reunion. No, it was a fucking relapse. — T.M. Frazier

You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart. — Patricia Polacco

In my family, we don't die till we're 100 years old. — Gunnar Myrdal