Nikeisha Thomas Quotes & Sayings

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed. — Alexander Chase

He paid scant attention to the conversation. He could smell his own sent on Anna's body, and it satisfied him in a primal way ... She gasped as he buried his nose in her maiden hair and inhaled. His scent was strongest here, in her gilded curls so soft and pretty in the morning light. — Elizabeth Hoyt

Sure, I acted in films in the Third Reich, entertainment films, which distracted countless people inside and outside Germany from daily life during war. — Johannes Heesters

Stupid is terminal. There is no cure. I know those who've beaten cancer, but not a single individual who's ever been cured of stupid. Fortunately, nature has its own way of thinning the herd. The stupid ultimately don't survive. The antelope that doesn't recognize the lion as predator, winds up inside the lion. — Quentin R. Bufogle

To be alive on the planet is to surrender to being her partner. To be in service of the Earth is to be enraptured by her. — Julianne Skai Arbor

(I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of how the world works or it's because you think France's self-interest is more important than America's. If the former applies to you, read a book. If it's the latter, maybe you should move there along with Alec Baldwin, Robert Altman, and the rest of the crowd who promised to leave a long time ago. But whatever you do, don't call France's position principled, because that just insults us both. — Jonah Goldberg

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company. — Pat Riley

I was interested in this because it bore out an opinion of mine that philosophy is an affair of character rather than of logic: the philosopher believes not according to evidence, but according to his own temperament; and his thinking merely serves to make reasonable what his instinct regards as true. — W. Somerset Maugham

Perhaps, he thought, as he turned back, that was what Augustus wanted: just to be free for a few days, just to saddle his horse and ride. — Larry McMurtry

It isn't what he did, Mrs. Wiggin. It's why. — Orson Scott Card

Before Google, I don't think people put much effort into the ordering of results. You might get a couple thouand results for a query. We saw that a thousand results weren't necessarily as useful as 10 good ones. — Sergey Brin

When you get ... to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters. — Kristin Hannah

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. — Rosalyn S. Yalow

This could be a big mistake ... but it was already happening. I was not a girl with all the information, but I knew one thing. If this was my forever, I didn't want to spend it here. — Sarah Dessen