Passieve Quotes & Sayings

I think we've been oversold the value of more and undersold the value of less. — Greg McKeown

Jennifer's father, Randy Ertman, summarized our feelings toward Medellin in his statement to the court when the last three defendants were sentenced to death: "I hope you rot in hell. I honest to God mean that. I hope they rot in hell, sir. I hope to be there when you die, you sick pieces of (censored). Thank you, Your Honor, for allowing me to speak. I appreciate it, sir."15 That doesn't move the story along; I just admired his eloquence. — Ann Coulter

He was a predator - a big, scary, hot-looking predator.
And I wanted to be his prey. — Wulf Francu Godgluck

Like a tide-race, the waves of human mediocrity are rising to the heavens and will engulf this refuge, for I am opening the flood-gates myself, against my will. Ah! but my courage fails me and my heart is sick within me!
Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the unbeliever who would fain believe, on the galley-slave of life who puts out to sea alone, in the night, beneath a firmament no longer lit by the consoling beacon-fires of the ancient hope!
(A Rebours, final words) — Joris-Karl Huysmans

Simon had never realized what a sad sound it was: hope. — Cassandra Clare

All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. — Chief Joseph

Some of the people in the village had real faces that I knew and could hate individually; Jim — Shirley Jackson

Helping Africans navigate the transition to modernity with a huge, wonderful wildlife resource still intact. — Patrick Bergin

Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend. — Alan Dean Foster

There is always room at the top, don't let them tell you there is not. — Adam Ant

My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad. — Maureen Dowd

We are all possibilites waiting to happen. BW 2004 — Brandi Winans

After all this time, it still seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out - but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it. Chip/Colonel — John Green