Mooresque Quotes & Sayings

For something made of wires, bits, and bytes, technology can elicit some fairly strong emotions in the people who attempt to use it. — Martha Heller

I took out my grenade and put my fingers inside the pin. 'Do you boys want this to be your last meal, or do you want to answer his question? — Ishmael Beah

The Government of the day, which from its tendency to be a few hours behind the course of events had been nicknamed the Government of the afternoon, was obliged to intervene with promptitude and decision. — Saki

Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life. — Charles F. Glassman

In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing has to happen immediately, this minute, or right now. It's okay to pause for just a moment. Just take a breath. Then go quietly inside. Ask life itself to lead you to your best outcome. There's nothing you have to do, really, except get out of your own way. — Neale Donald Walsch

Don't mistake any of this for altruism ... Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better. — Larry Ellison

I believe that God's Word is accessible and understandable to every believer who is willing to put in the time and effort to study it responsibly. I — Bob Cornuke

Every other 16-year-old girl wanted to look at bridal magazines; I could not have been more bored with the notion. — Evangeline Lilly

I always imagined that when I got pregnant it would be awesome and everything would go perfectly, and I'd pose for all those artfully naked, pregnant Demi Mooresque pictures and put them all over my house, and suddenly I'd have less cellulite, and then I'd go into labor while I was standing in line at the bank, but it would be okay because the baby would get stuck in my pants leg, so it totally wouldn't slam into the floor. Thank God for skinny jeans with maternity panels; am I right? — Jenny Lawson

Walking upright between the past and future, a tightrope walk across our times, became, for me, a way of living: trying to maintain a balance between the competing gravities of birth and death, hope and regret, sex and mortality, love and grief, all those opposites or nearly opposites that become, after a while, the rocks and hard places, synonymous forces between which we navigate, like salmon balanced in the current, damned some times if we do or don't. — Thomas Lynch

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences. — Jeanne DuPrau

I have a song called 'Decisions' that features Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Common. It's about people who have made a decision to really stand by you as friends. — Busta Rhymes

My dream is to see India as a nation of well-looked-after and respected sportspeople in all fields. — Saina Nehwal