Notatki Keep Quotes & Sayings

Among the most disheartening and dangerous of ... advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever ... — Minnie Maddern Fiske

He walked over the arched stone bridge, enjoying the silence of the village. Snow did that. It laid down a simple, clean duvet that muffled all sound and kept everything beneath alive. Farmers and gardeners in Quebec wished for two things in winter: lots of snow and continuous cold. An early thaw was a disaster. It tricked the young
and vulnerable into exposing themselves, only to be nipped in the root. A killing frost. — Louise Penny

Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted. — Jacques Delors

Love isn't like money
the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give. — S.M. Stirling

Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent? — James Otis

It was all very well to pretend you were not afraid of death, Bea thought, but people only said that because they had not looked death in the eye. They had not understood that it meant everything you have always taken for granted and loved without even knowing it-the world around you, the memories you carry with you, your hopes for the future- all of this being extinguished like a candle flame that is blown out. And afterwards, there would be nothing. Not even emptiness. Not even loneliness. Not even pain. — Brian Keaney

I don't ever feel like I've had a moment where I am like, "There it is; perfect and holy in all ways." — Chiwetel Ejiofor

How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno? — Arun Manilal Gandhi

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this. — James Ellroy

I vowed to never use my American accent, and I didn't. Even going to get the paper in the morning to buying milk down at the shop, getting a cab, wherever. — Lake Bell

These senior claims were supposed to be very low-risk; after all, how likely was it that a large number of people would default on their mortgages at the same time? The answer, of course, is that it was quite likely in an environment where homes were worth 30, 40, 50 percent less than the borrowers originally paid for them. So a lot of supposedly safe assets, assets that had been rated AAA by Standard & Poor's or Moody's, ended up becoming "toxic waste", worth only a fraction of their face value. — Paul Krugman

One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest of mankind, sinners; for they, like many others, are liable to confuse the generic term "sinner" with the specific term "criminal." Most of us are so accustomed to admit that we have fallen short of grace and are "miserable offenders," in view of our possibilities and opportunities, that we do not resent being called "sinners"; but not so with our congregation. — Mary B. Harris

You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. — Jessica Jung

I will not stop my blog. — John McAfee

We pray for a messenger from God - who knows but what the messenger also prayed for a place to take his message? — Orson Scott Card