Mollifying Def Quotes & Sayings

A person who doesn't have a structured way of writing their goals will experience disorder, even in the comfort zone. — Onyi Anyado

Honesty is the only way to fight the inner demons. — Seth Adam Smith

The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next time we have a pestilence of them it will come to grief quickly enough, and if the good banks escape ruin with the bad ones it will be only because the taxpayer foots the bill. — H.L. Mencken

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created - created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. — John Schaar

All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets. — Tom Hodgkinson

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition. — Eliza Haywood

Nothing will inflame your enemies more than your silence. Give them nothing. Nothing to accuse you with. Nothing to condemn you. Let your actions speak for themselves. Never talk to an enemy, but listen always. — Elizabeth Hunter

I knew that Feely and Daffy would never condescend to respond to a bell "So utterly Pavlovian," Feely said — Alan Bradley

When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise. — Buzz Aldrin

When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and the vagaries of his left eye (which was for ever trying to dash up and down the vertical surface of the door), he was able by dint of concentration to observe, within three inches of his keyholed eye, an eye which was not his, being not only of a different colour to his own iron marble, but being, which is more convincing, on the other side of the door. — Mervyn Peake