Ponderance Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

There seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two. — Margaret Wise Brown

And at a relatively early age, ten or so, I invested my first share of stock. And I used to follow, look at companies and so forth. But throughout the whole period, and indeed right through my college years, while I was involved in the stock market, always interested in finance, I never thought of it as a full-time job. — Robert C. Merton

No civilization can thrive or survive if it refuses to adapt or change. — Debasish Mridha

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself. — Plato

I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy. — John Malkovich

As for Demonologies: A History, I was beginning to think it would have been better employed as a doorstop. — Rachel Hawkins

Oliver sat huddled together, in a corner of the cart; bewildered with alarm and apprehension; and figuring strange objects in the gaunt trees, whose branches waved grimly to and fro, as if in some fantastic joy at the desolation of the scene. — Charles Dickens

Emma and I had both died twice, and for me, that second one actually stuck. Now I was a "resurrected American," better known, in colloquial terms, as life-challenged. Or undead. Or the living dead. But I'm not a zombie. I'm just a little less alive than your average high school junior. — Rachel Vincent

Sometimes I wonder if we make too much of our presidents. Might it be better if we ignored them a little more than we do? But then on the other hand, I don't think we can ever know enough about them, and particularly before putting them in the job. The truth is, of course, it makes an enormous difference who's in the White House. — David McCullough

The heart of a person only beats when it's surrounded by blood, by family. — Erica Goros