Needlelike Quotes & Sayings

There's something backward about living in a place so obsessed with the past; it's like everyone's given up on the idea of a future. — Lauren Oliver

Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take. — Angela N. Blount

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go. — Homer

The thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company. — Benjamin Graham

The flow of time is always cruel... its speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it... A thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days... — Sheik

Including four mice posed with tiny china cups, seated around a miniature table. A Mad Hatter's grotesque tea party. — Tess Gerritsen

I have a great love of the actual. — Manny Farber

A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth. — Richard Stallman

Better to wait quietly in their corner, they think, than to be dashed
against the stones. — Paul Auster

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately. — Allen Klein

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry. — Dalai Lama

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

When I hug trees, the bark marks my cheek and reminds me I'm alive. Or that my nervous system is still intact. The trees breathe all the time and no one really notices. They take in all the air we choke on. They live and die in silence. So I hug them. Someone should. — Evan Roskos

I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied. — Oliver North

Maybe he was a good man once, this old one, my predecessor, but they had worn him down, in thirty years, like a big knife made thin and fragile, needlelike, from constant honings. All that good steel just rubbed away no one knew where. — James Jones

The heart of a woman is really strange. — Kim Dong Hwa