Nicolas Romero Quotes & Sayings

We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability. — Richard Sennett

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family? — Billy Graham

There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it. — Thomas Hobbes

She is still forming her conclusions but, above all, is convinced that their actions are borne of instinct: fixed patterns that take them to their source of food, to their safe havens, to their mates, and, ultimately, to their death, since their predators learn these patterns as surely as if they, too, had read Maud's book. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

It is sometimes said that we should never believe a scientific theory until it is verified by experiment. But a famous astronomer has also stated that we should never believe an observation until it is confirmed by a theory. — Joao Magueijo

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct. — Seneca The Younger

Kill her for me," she said in that whiny little-girl voice.
Diego took a step toward me, wearing an expression that told me he was only too happy to oblige his lady love.
"Oh, what?" I said. I wasn't even scared. I didn't care anymore. The numbness in my heart had pretty much taken over my whole body. "You always do what she tells you? You know, we have a word for that now. It's called being whipped. — Meg Cabot

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation." — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world. — Colin Powell