Notnicolexo Quotes & Sayings

You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it. — Patrick Soon-Shiong

Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you — Jack Lasenby

Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little. — Douglas Wilder

He's a fascinating gentleman. Old-school. I tried to talk him into attending one of my services, but he said he wasn't finished sinning yet, and he'd let me know when he was. — Lisa Kleypas

Here I was, on the cusp of my own great dream, my own impossible truth, and this gluttonous man was crowding it with his improbable vision. There wasn't enough magic in the universe for both of us. Worse, Garth's mad theory put mine in an altogether new light. Was I as crazy as his fat ass? — Mat Johnson

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections. — Edmund Burke

I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference. — James Brown

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. — John Sterling

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you consume too much salt, it can cause water retention. When this happens, your body usually responds by raising your blood pressure to push excess fluid and salt out of your system. — Michael Greger

It was not that these emotions were unworthy or inappropriate; it was simply that they were wasted upon the man. — Robin Hobb

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached. — Judith Martin

It is an established fact that alcoholism, cocainism, and morphinism are deadly enemies of life, of health, and of the capacity for work and enjoyment ... But this is far from demonstrating that the authorities must interpose to suppress these vices by commercial prohibitions ... More harmful still than all these pleasures, many will say, is the reading of evil literature. — Ludwig Von Mises

Jus' live the day. Don' worry yaself. — John Steinbeck

CHARACTER of the HAPPY WARRIOR. Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he Whom every Man in arms should wish to be? - It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his childish thought: Whose high endeavours are an inward light That make the path before him always bright: Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; Abides by this resolve, and stops not there, 10 But makes his moral being his prime care; Who, doom'd to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train! — William Wordsworth