Mondial Auto Quotes & Sayings

I told the others which trees to chop, where to get the mud, even though I was not the official leader. My father used to say, 'Thing like a boss, not like a worker.' He meant that it is better to use your brain and be active than to be sullen and passive, as most workers are. I worked harder than anyone in the crew because it kept my mind sharp and because it kept me from thinking about other things. — Haing Ngor

No, you 'will' listen. For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into you neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason. Because this isn't reasonable. If you're terrified, believe me- this scares the hell out of me, too. You asked about Rose? I tried to be a better person for her- but it was to impress her, to get her to want me. But when I'm around you, I want to be better because ... well, because it feels right. Because 'I' want to. You make me want to become something greater than myself. I want to excel. You inspire me in every act, ever word, every glance. I look at you, and you're like ... like light made into flesh. I said it on Halloween and meant every word: you are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth. And you don't even know it. You have no clue how beautiful you are of how brightly you shine. -Adrian Ivashkov, pg. 415 — Richelle Mead

I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams. — Erin Morgenstern

It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us. — Andrew Greeley

Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars. — Edvard Munch

Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle. — Jim Butcher

I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject. — William Zinsser

You know the opinion of Cervantes? He said that reading a translation is like examining the back of a piece of tapestry. — Carl Sagan

All the talk about the so-called unspeakable horror of early capitalism can be refuted by a single statistic: precisely in these years in which British capitalism developed, precisely in the age called the Industrial Revolution in England, in the years from 1760 to 1830, precisely in those years the population of England doubled. — Ludwig Von Mises

Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar. — Patrick DeWitt

She wouldn't have understood how dark a side love could have, how hiding it was the kindest thing you could do sometimes. — Kristin Hannah

As Sicknes is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sicknes, is solitude ... Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itselfe.
-DONNE — Oliver Sacks

You serve the best by doing what you love the most. — Maria Bello

I think our 'changes' are not as radical as we suppose - in some way we persist as us ... — John Geddes

My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.
These, by contrast, are the six elements of a Sacred Harp alto: rage, darkness, motherhood, earth, malice, and sex. Once you feel it, you can always do it. You know where to go for it, though it will cost you. — Mary Rose O'Reilley