Nincompoopery Book Quotes & Sayings

Being married cuts on your freedom. Having a husband or a relationship at all puts constraints on you. by Michael. — Emily Giffin

Because sometimes people expect more, they expect their desires to be met, they fancy a future built on the pillars of their faith. But love is weak and impermanent and thus when the time comes, the pillars begin to crumble.
Then again that doesn't mean they can't be built again. They can, they surely can, when the times are favorable and the state of affairs, sound. — Chirag Tulsiani

In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. — Tom Brokaw

How many more gay people must God create until we realize that he wants them here? — Kaniela Ing

Shareholder value is an outcome - not a strategy" [BusinessWeek 2009]. — Jurgen Appelo

I have never found such a man! I have never found a man as generous as myself, as forgiving, as tolerant, as carefree, as reckless, as clean at heart. I forgive myself for every crime I have committed. I do it in the name of humanity. I know what it means to be human, the weakness and the strength of it. I suffer from this knowledge and I revel in it also. If I had the chance to be God I would reject it. If I had the chance to be a star I would reject it. The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human. It embraces the whole universe. It includes the knowledge of death, which not even God enjoys. — Henry Miller

We have one solid comfort amidst this little tripping about, our hearts can always be in the same place, centered in God, for whom alone we go forward or stay back. — Catherine McAuley

Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there, 'cause you've got a friend. — James Taylor

The way the function dictates the form ... elegant lines ... nothing extraneous ... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness. — David Mazzucchelli

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality. — Ralph Nader

The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias. — Susan Sontag

We learn by experience that happiness and pleasure are a fata morgana, which, visible from afar, vanish as we approach; that, on the other hand, suffering and pain are a reality, which makes its presence felt without any intermediary, and for its effect, stands in no need of illusion or the play of false hope. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Well, when you have an opportunity to build a show around one of the greatest detectives in all of literature, you're going to jump at that opportunity. — Nina Tassler

I urge the husbands and fathers of this church to be the kind of a man your wife would not want to be without. — James E. Faust

She loves mysteries so much, she became one. — John Green