Nactus Quotes & Sayings

It's a calculated risk, you see. You're either laughing all over your face or you're in deep, deep shit. Whether to take the risk or not. If you take the gamble, you may fall off the twig frozen stiff one night and not thaw out till spring. Bottle it and you might not have anywhere to nest when you return. These are, as it were, the eternal dilemmas you're confronted with. — Jo Nesbo

A gaping chasm separates what we try to be aware of and what we actually are aware of. And I don't care how long your yardstick is, there's no measuring that drop. What I can set down here in writing only amounts to a catalog. Not a novel, not literature, not even art. Just a notebook with a line ruled down the center. And maybe a lesson or two in it somewhere. — Haruki Murakami

Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
[Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.] — Plautus

When we stepped out of the car, I heard the ghosts. Lots of them here, too many, swirling and battling for my attention. My father's won out. — Harlan Coben

I love the ambiguous kind of endings. I think, oftentimes, that's what life really is - there's no concrete path for you to take. It's always kind of a jumble of variables. Behind this door could be a beautiful woman, and behind the same door could be a tiger, you know? You don't know. — Joe Carnahan

Rich people can be generous, even the ones with bloodcurdling political views can be generous, but most believe in generosity on their own terms, and underneath (not so deep, either), they're always afraid someone is going to steal their presents and eat their birthday cake. — Stephen King

I'm not attracted to grumpy older men. Yeah, I'd just keep telling myself that. — Meghan Ciana Doidge

A translator must, of course, be an interpreter of cultures. — Philip Zaleski

I felt I wrote my views of my experience with mere encouragement I got in Earth, I researched like a wanderer did, with songs of my creation ever had in me and I would be pleased to give away my knowledge to mankind like my ashes I diffuse with my society. — Nithin Purple

I should not believe in a God who does not dance. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete. — John Sununu

You dont deserve words lady. you deserve actions. — Katy Evans

All her hopes of a future have been torn away from her again
and having those hopes, even briefly, makes this far more painful than not having had them at all. — Neal Shusterman

Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse. — Benjamin Franklin