Orients Pride Quotes & Sayings

I had periods when I was out of work, and I still do - I just don't worry about them as much any more. — Shelley Conn

Very few writers thank their mothers for keen editorial insight; I'm happy to be the exception. — Rebecca Makkai

Truth is often better seized and louder in the silence of the written word. — Ina Catrinescu

Friendship, like other kinds of altruism, is vulnerable to cheaters, and we have a special name for them: fair-weather friends. These sham friends reap the benefits of associating with a valuable person and mimic signs of warmth in an effort to become valued themselves. But when a little rain falls, they are nowhere in sight. — Steven Pinker

In some way, everyone is your son or daughter, so without judging them, love everyone. — Debasish Mridha

Freedom is not doing what you like, but liking what you do. — R.H. Blyth

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. — E.W. Howe

The left's idea of science is that we should all be riding bicycles and using the Clivus Multrum composting latrines instead of flush toilets. Anyone who dissents, they say - while adjusting their healing crystals for emphasis - is afraid of science. — Ann Coulter

You have bound us, Kimble imagined saying, to an evil world. Where's the love in that? And in that scenario, God always answered, Temporarily bound you, yes. Now, during your time in that evil world, did you do anything to help? — Michael Koryta

I descended into solitude so thick that conversations with repairmen became anxious social occasions. — Louisa Hall

Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found in the banks of the Amoy River in soutern China and is remarkable in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison? — Arthur Conan Doyle