Neascus Quotes & Sayings

I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation. — John Stossel

Someday Perky. Someday... When you're ready, you'll realize just how dirty my mouth can be all over you. And you'll love it. — Penelope Ward

He was the kind of man who brings a sour mouth to the eating of the sweetest apple. — Edith Wharton

Everything happens for a reason? I don't see it that way at all. To me, only the first part is clear: Everything happens. Then other things happen, and other things, still. Out of each of these moments, we make something. Any number of somethings, in fact.

What comes of our own actions becomes the "reason." It is no predestined thing. We may arrive where we are by way of a specific path - we can take just one at a time - but it's never the only one that could have led us to our destination. Nor does a single event, even a string of them, point decisively to a single landing spot. There are infinite possible versions of our lives. Meaning is not what happens, but what we do with what happens when it does. — Jessica Fechtor

We know that the Furies do not come uninvited. — Katherine Anne Porter

New York was something like a circus performer walking a tightrope an juggling at the same time ... It could barely maintain its position, but an movement would tip the whole balance. — John Lindsay

There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody was a writer. Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. Of those fifty guys in the room, probably fifteen of them
thought they were writers. Almost everybody used words and could write them down, i.e., almost everybody could be a writer. But most men, fortunately, aren't writers, or even cab drivers, and some men - many men - unfortunately aren't anything. — Charles Bukowski

Whether democracy or aristocracy is the better form of government constitutes a very difficult question. But, clearly, democracy inconveniences one person while aristocracy oppresses another. That is a truth which establishes itself and precludes any discussion: you are rich and I am poor. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Merlin nodded gravely. Doing what is right is nearly always simple, Mr. Potter. But it is never easy. — G. Norman Lippert

Every proposal to seek authorization elsewhere than in the gospel itself must lead us astray. The — Lesslie Newbigin

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die. — Andrew Stanton