Myaberdeen Quotes & Sayings

We're not savages. We're English. — William Golding

Not all dreams need to be realized. — Patti Smith

I'm so jealous of people who have crushes on people they go to school with or work with. That's such a blessing. You actually get to see them all the time and spend time with them. — Aziz Ansari

Ministers, deacons, and elders may all be wise, but if the sacred Dove departs, and the spirit of strife enters, it is all over with us. Brethren, our system will not work without the Spirit of God, and I am glad it will not, for its stoppages and breakages call our attention to the fact of His absence. Our system was never intended to promote the glory of priests and pastors, but it is calculated to educate manly Christians, who will not take their faith at second-hand. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up. — Debra Wilson

You don't want a slob, but you don't want a guy who is constantly borrowing your tweezers. — Lauren Conrad

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books. — G.H. Hardy

Prescient woman called Meronym visited my dwellin' for a spell, an' nothin'd be the same, not in my life, not in the Valleys, nay, not never. — David Mitchell

Why, for example, wasn't AIG required to reserve capital against them? Why, for that matter, were Moody's and Standard & Poor's willing to bless 80 percent of a pool of dicey mortgage loans with the same triple-A rating they bestowed on the debts of the U.S. Treasury? Why didn't someone, anyone, inside Goldman Sachs stand up and say, "This is obscene. The rating agencies, the ultimate pricers of all these subprime mortgage loans, clearly do not understand the risk, and their idiocy is creating a recipe for catastrophe"? — Michael Lewis

Were they all just stories whose endings had already been written, the dates of their deaths pinned to the page with periods? — Traci Chee

A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need. — Polly Berrien Berends

People need foundation myths. — Tom McCarthy

...by saying that the former was only concerned with quality, the latter only with quantity, mistook cause for effect. — Immanuel Kant

The irony of the human heart is that it's tormented both by the presence and absence of it's own soul's counterpart. — Crystal Woods

In autobiography, as in all literature, what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience to believe — Salman Rushdie