Piquet Card Quotes & Sayings

A good bank is the one that does good to its community and a bad bank is the one that feeds the avarice of corrupt individuals. Very simple. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Of course, I'm only joking," he says, studying me. "The reason they're staring is because I am extraordinarily good looking. — Penelope King

And I was holding someone who was destined to be my best friend, or possibly my worst enemy. — Rick Riordan

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly. — Don DeLillo

In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics pretty well assimilated and a lot of work in thermodynamics going on, man was looked on as a heat engine, about 40 per cent efficient. Now in the twentieth century, with nuclear and subatomic physics a going thing, man had become something which absorbs X-rays, gamma rays and neutrons. — Thomas Pynchon

The argument for getting our own house in order is not an argument for turning our back on the world. We cannot and should not do that. — Chris Christie

I had no illusions that now, in some final and dramatic flash of revelation, we would understand one another. We were done. It was a fact of my life
intractable and sad
that our relationship had been a failure. Still, with her prognosis came one last chance to be her daughter. [p. 163] — Dani Shapiro

Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations. — David L. Weimer

Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap. — Florence King

Explain to me again," he begged," why we are here."

She had told him once before; it had been like listening to a vivid, improbable dream. — Patricia A. McKillip

I make no claims. I have set down the facts; and the only warning advice or admonition I have to give is that any person who makes up his mind to try this method and things he isn't in for the hardest struggle of his life would do well not to try. This isn't frolic. It's a fight. — Samuel G. Blythe