Mustards Napa Quotes & Sayings

The cup that went down under has now come up again. — Sue Simmons

Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule. — Stephen Kinzer

We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought. — Sonia Sotomayor

Ever has common decency paved the way to uncommon folly. — Jay Lake

What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing - the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others. — John Stuart Mill

The day when we plan seriously to start living either never comes or it comes too late. — I. A. R. Wylie

People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred. — John Lanchester

He learns that the form, in its current form, was originally called a formulary, and was invented by an Englishman named Charles Babbage, the same man who invented both an early kind of computer and the cow catcher, a device attached to the front of locomotives to clear debris from train tracks. He learns that Babbage once wrote to Alfred Tennyson to correct two lines from one of Tennyson's poems, which Babbage felt lacked scientific accuracy. This, thinks Jonas, tells you everything you need to know about both the man and the invention of forms. — Stephen Dau

Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one. — Alan Cohen

I pondered what else I should take for him. Flowers seemed wrong; they're a love token, after all. I looked in the fridge, and popped a packet of cheese slices into the bag. All men like cheese. — Gail Honeyman

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones. — Jane Smiley

I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail. — Kinky Friedman

I do feel responsible. He used to be able to look after himself. Now he can't. That's so different, so strange. The big question is: Is more improvement really possible, or should I stop pushing him?' [p. 153] — Diane Ackerman