Ora 00904 Double Quotes & Sayings

There is something mournful and uneasy about waking up late at night on a moving train. The wheels clicked a bony rhythm, the engine growled like a distant Leviathan, and from time to time the whistle sounded a cry so lonesome it seemed to speak for the whole wide moonless night. — Robert Charles Wilson

Youth is an unrecoverable asset. Unless you are a hydra, lucky you. — Anca Iovita

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate. — Solon

I'd been too intent on the room to hear her coming up the stairs. Leslie said that the capacity not to notice a traditional Dutch folk dancing band walk up behind you was not a survival characteristic in the complex, fast-paced world of the modern policing environment. I'd like to point out that I was trying to give directions to a slightly deaf tourist at the time, and anyway it was a Swedish dance troupe. — Ben Aaronovitch

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done. — Sidney Hillman

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect. — Ted Turner

Lack of success can be attributed to one of two things: You don't know what to do, or you know what to do and you're not doing it. — Rob Liano

I am not afraid that you will hurt me. If you do, the scars won't last for eternity. People hurt each other all the time. Especially when they care for each other. — Leah Thomas

I fool around with guitar and I can fool around on piano. I don't really play either instrument although I can play a couple of songs on guitar. You don't really need to be able to play to compose. There are many composers and arrangers who work out of their heads. — Frankie Laine

Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, May 19, 1821} — John Adams

When it comes to trade, when it comes to standing up to countries like North Korea, when it comes to standing up to guys like Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump is not a conservative. — Bret Stephens