Nonstories Quotes & Sayings

To torment and tantalize oneself with hopes of possible fortune is so sweet, so thrilling! — Anton Chekhov

But it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters. — Norton Juster

Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice. — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom. — Mitt Romney

The things that don't happen to us that we'll never know didn't happen to us. The nonstories. The extra minute to find the briefcase that makes you late to the spot where a tractor trailer mauled another car instead of yours. The woman you didn't meet because she couldn't get a taxi to the party you had to leave early from. All of life is a series of nonstories if you look at it that way. We just don't know what they are. — Anita Shreve

The true structure of the Welsh grammar will be revealed only when we look at sentences slightly more complicated than its basic VSO pattern. Welsh is no different from the rest of the world: it does involve an extra step, but even that isn't all that unusual. Welsh is like Shakespearean English on acid: the verb always - not just in questions - moves to the beginning. Alternatively, it can be viewed as taking the French grammar a step further. While the verb stops at tense in French, it moves further in Welsh to a position that traditional grammarians call the complementizer (don't ask). — Charles Yang

Do you think Meg cares for him?" asked Mrs. March, with an anxious look.
"Mercy me! I don't know anything about love and such nonsense!" cried Jo, with a funny mixture of interest and contempt. "In novels, the girls show it by starting and blushing, fainting away, growing thin, and acting like fools. Now Meg does not do anything of the sort. She eats and drinks and sleeps like a sensible creature. — Louisa May Alcott

Barfly n. You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share. — David Levithan

I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune. — Jim Rohn

A day doesn't go by where I don't create something. — Patti Smith

I'm not James Bond. There's your headline! It's very clear to me that he's the furthest from my character that it's possible to be. It's somebody I play. — Daniel Craig

They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that's taken my tomorrow, and turned them into yesterday. — Ben Harper

The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what's going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS. — Boris Johnson

I love weird science. I learned in an article in 'National Geographic' that there are trillions of bacteria in our guts that help us digest food. These are non-human creatures. — Will Hobbs

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. — Abraham Lincoln