Pequest Quotes & Sayings

Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they're not. We're told they can only be one thing - like handsome and charming and that's it. Nothing more. — Jason Ritter

The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers. — Peter Drucker

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. — Cormac McCarthy

But their shoulders were as straight as they had been in the past: in the classroom, on the stage, at the Sabbath table. So there were other sources, too, of pride, and they had not left everything behind. — Lois Lowry

Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general. — Bill Dedman

The drone in my ear, it's like the tornado drill in elementary school, the hand-cranked siren that rang mercilessly, all of us hunched over on ourselves, facing the basement walls, heads tucked into our chests. Beth and me wedged tight, jeaned legs pressed against each other. The sounds of our own breathing. Before we all stopped believing a tornado, or anything, could touch us, ever — Megan Abbott

The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics. — Tom Stoppard

If your creativity comes out of your silence, out of your Zen, out of your meditations, then it is authentic, original. If it comes only as an occupation because you are feeling lost and there is nothing to do - a long holiday, so you start doing something ... That is not coming out of your silences, it is coming out of your crazy mind. — Rajneesh

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party. — Dag Hammarskjold

Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in. — Sam Kean

I can't do this by myself. It requires two security codes to access the full system and shut it down. — Alan Dean Foster