P2012 Quotes & Sayings

Don't flatter yourself. It's hard not to notice when fifty drunks are chanting your name. — Jamie McGuire

The National Association of Theater Concessionaires reported that in 1986, 60% of all candy sold in movie theaters was sold to Roger Ebert. — David Letterman

I firmly believe that the most important feature of spending the people's money is complete transparency. — Marsha Blackburn

Whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do. — Olga Kurylenko

How was I supposed to survive here? These Portlanders were an entirely different breed of white people. — Gabby Rivera

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love. — Haruki Murakami

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence. — Robert Cormier

When you accept that you are not in charge of everything, you can begin to work with the one who really is in charge. This has been my experience; when I accepted that I was not in charge and started to work with someone else's plan, the Boss showed up. Now we are a team and I have less to be concerned about. He organizes my schedule. I just follow it, and when He is taking a day off my wife steps in. — Bernie Siegel

Either it was when I followed Sylvie across the bridge, and the lake claimed us, or it was when my mother left me waiting for her, and established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain. Or it was at my conception. — Marilynne Robinson

I honestly don't think about myself; it's more about my kids. They were both born in L.A., and they're like little beams of sun, little tornadoes, and they can't be in a confined space. And one of the things I love most about L.A. is the freedom there. — Liberty Ross

Conviction has also four aspects to guard oneself against infatuations of sin; to search for explanation of truth through knowledge; to gain lessons from instructive things and to follow the precedent of the past people, because whoever wants to guard himself against vices and sins will have to search for the true causes of infatuation and the true ways of combating them out and to find those true ways one has to search them with the help of knowledge, whoever gets fully acquainted with various branches of knowledge will take lessons from life and whoever tries to take lessons from life is actually engaged in the study of the causes of rise and fall of previous civilizations . — Anonymous