Praeterea Quotes & Sayings

Our city is changing, faster now than ever before, and in order to keep up with it, we'll have to change, too. We'll have to become stronger, braver, better than we are now. — Veronica Roth

Emulation without revelation is rarely profitable. — Kirby Clements

There's no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it. — Jimmy Carter

Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose. — Rhonda Byrne

Awful fondness you people have for knives. It's really not right. — Theresa Romain

But then twitching nervously in the presence of a librarian wasn't an uncommon response - librarians, like ministers of religion, and poets, and people with serious mental health disorders, can make people nervous. Librarians possess a kind of occult power, an aura. They could silence people with just a glance. At least, they did in Israel's fantasies. In Israel's fantasies, librarians were mild-mannered superheroes, with extrasensory perceptions and a highly developed sense of responsibility who demanded respect from everyone they met. In reality, Israel couldn't silence even Mrs Onions on her mobile phone when she was disturbing other readers. — Ian Sansom

For a seer, I was remarkably obtuse. — Geraldine Brooks

My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when I told her, 'Mum, he has more books than me!' So, books are at the very heart of my life. — Diane Setterfield

We learn to tread more warily, to trust less to our own strength, to have lower thoughts of ourselves, and higher thoughts of Him; in which two last particulars I apprehend what the Scripture means by a growth of grace does properly consist. Both are increasing in the lively Christian: - -every day shows him more of his own heart, and more of the power, sufficiency, compassion, and grace of his adorable Redeemer; but neither will be complete till we get to Heaven. I — John Newton

I'll back English women against the world, Harry," said Lord Fermor, striking the table with his fist. "The betting is on — Oscar Wilde

Editorial imagery licensing includes celebrity, entertainment, sports, and news images that capture what is happening in the world around us. — Jon Oringer

Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it may have ordained that the fall of the wicked shall be the rise of the good.
To J. Correa de Serra, Monticello, Apr. 19, 1814 — Thomas Jefferson

Set up an arbitrary set of rules and then follow them slavishly. — Errol Morris

Her encouragement and reassurance were constant and extravagant. Once, not seeing her at a public function, he demanded, with something of his old snarl, "Where's Lady Bird?" and she replied, "Right behind you, darling. Where I've always been." At a conference at which he became agitated, she slipped him a note. "Don't let anybody upset you. You'll do the right thing. You're a good man. — Robert A. Caro