Observationally Stable Quotes & Sayings

Necessity is the motherfucker of invention. — Christopher Buckley

A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish. — William Shakespeare

There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times. — William Shakespeare

whose picture appeared to be a state-issued ID of an octogenarian drag queen. I — Neal Stephenson

I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player. — Kirsty Gallacher

Groaning, he gripped his fists in the wild stuff. "Contessa.God, Contessa."
She straightened, changing the angle, changing the pleasure. She shook her hair back and undulated. She was a contessa.A princess.No,a queen. — Christie Ridgway

Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you
the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself. — Seth Godin

I shake my head. The EQUESTRIAN — Charles Stross

All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and humanity itself to the reigning of interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state. — Edmund Burke

Do it and do it now. Err on the side of taking action — J. Willard Marriott

Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile? — Socrates

You want to keep it in there because you feel like it's yours but to be able to see that sometimes some stuff needs to go and I think it's for the benefit of the film. — Brandon Routh

And he makes me think ... that it'll be okay. That I don't have to worry about screwing it up. — Rainbow Rowell

Eseldorf was a paradise for us boys. We were not overmuch pestered with schooling. Mainly we were trained to be good Christians; to revere the Virgin, the Church, and the saints above everything. Beyond these matters we were not required to know much; and, in fact, not allowed to. Knowledge was not good for the common people, and could make them discontented with the lot which God had appointed for them, and God would not endure discontentment with His plans. — Mark Twain

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought. — Winston S. Churchill