Nie Wieder Quotes & Sayings

Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether. — Mike Wallace

If all I need to do is smile, your culture is highly dependent on the shallowness of outer appearances." "Yeah," I laugh. "We know. A million dead philosophers have told us before. — Sara Wolf

Keep doing good deeds long enough and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself. — Louis Auchincloss

You make me want to vomit, and you're lucky we're in a public place or there's a really good chance I would be punching you repeatedly in the face right now. — Jay Crownover

"But you're a full-blood netherling. You don't know how to use your imagination."
"On the contrary. I do. Thanks to you. I followed your example in our childhood. I absorbed it without even realizing. Then, when I was stuck here deprived of my magic, I had to find something to while away those weeks and hours. Perhaps that was the silver lining to this entire debacle. The lack of magic is what leads humans to fantasize in the first place. And Alyssa, what a wonderfully powerful force an imagination can be."
His expression is awestruck, exactly the way he used to look at me during our childhood escapades. How inconceivable, that I was his teacher, too. He once told me I was, but I never grasped what he meant until now. — A.G. Howard

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. — Aldous Huxley

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. — Horatio Nelson

We'd walk home together in the foggy summer night and I'd tell her about sex; the good stuff, like how it could be warm and exciting
it took you away
and the not-so-good things, like how once you showed someone that part of yourself, you had to trust them one thousand percent and anything could happen. Someone you thought you knew could change and suddenly not want you, suddenly decide you made a better story than a girlfriend. Or how sometimes you might think you wanted to do it and then halfway through or afterward realize no, you just wanted the company, really; you wanted someone to choose you, and the sex part itself was like a trade-off, something you felt like you had to give to get the other part. I'd tell her that and help her decide. I'd be a friend. — Sara Zarr

We know that when push comes to shove, [we can] drive ourselves to save our planet. — Jeff Corwin

Faith that is not evidenced by a life of integrity is not biblical faith at all. — David Jeremiah

When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character. — Bailee Madison

It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson