Petrolicious Quotes & Sayings

Since Samoylenko had left Dorpat, where he had studied medicine, he had rarely seen a German and had not read a single German book, but, in his opinion, every harmful idea in politics or science was due to the Germans. Where he had got this notion he could not have said himself, but he held it firmly. — Anton Chekhov

I am much bigger than the average chicken, and furthermore I was armed with a rolling pin and kitchen knife. As a matter of fact I have always had the greatest contempt for chickens. They are so stupid that they probably don't even notice the difference when they die, but I must admit that this particular chicken put up a very good fight. — Auberon Waugh

If lack of a feature will force you out of business today it doesn't matter how much it will cost to deal with the code tomorrow; you — Sandi Metz

As brothers and sister we knew instinctively that if we were going to stand in darkness, best we stand in a darkness we had made ourselves. — Douglas Coupland

Just before dawn, when the pain became unbearable, he took one of the morphine tablets and fell off into a loud, booming sleep, in which the great sun expanded until it filled the entire universe, the stars themselves jolted by each of its beats. — J.G. Ballard

When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America. — Christopher Morley

A theology that does not build on the past ignores our debt to history and naively overlooks the fact that the present is conditioned by history. A theology that relies upon the past evades the demands of the present. — Greg Nichols

Images are life's most cherished moments quoted with wings. — C.C. Wyatt

I'll be here, each day and every day on, as long as you want me to be — Nicole Williams

The beauty of quality is set up in the right orchestration of objects or people that values the beholder — Priyavrat Thareja

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals. — Washington Irving

It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it. — David Levithan

existence depends on order. — Lauren Oliver