Quieton Quotes & Sayings

Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress. — John Wooden

Seabiscuit took to stomping and bellowing for food day and night. His moans rang off the barn walls and worked on everyone's nerves, but no one gave in. "The whole ranch became centered on the job," Howard said. "Even the pigs quit grunting at him and the chickens kept out of his way. — Laura Hillenbrand

I saw these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on the morrow, loving fiercely and discarding brutally, sure of no affection and happy in no love; then there were the women who were drawn to him, suffering insults and beatings, finally rejected and yet still clinging to him, degraded by jealousy and despised love, but still remaining faithful. — Hermann Hesse

A king should never sit easy, Aegon the Conqueror had said, when he commanded his armorers to forge a great seat from the swords laid down by his enemies. — George R R Martin

You've gone back to the way you used to be before. The way you promised you'd never be again. — Sophie Kinsella

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket. — Adlai E. Stevenson

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person. — Errol Morris

My mom can still slap me silly and my dad still threatens to ground me. — Cole Hamels

Remember it is your choice; you can either wait for someone or end someone's waiting. — M.F. Moonzajer

Every time you make something that somebody likes, your impulse is to remind them that if you hadn't made some of these other things that they hated, you wouldn't have been able to make the thing that they liked. — Steven Soderbergh

I don't like funerals, and a while ago I just stopped going to them. I think the ceremony is a form of denial, and when my wife died and my daughter, Cady, informed me that she was unaware of any instance where going to somebody's funeral ever brought them back, I just about gave it up. — Craig Johnson

Samskrit is the greatest language of the world. — Max Muller

Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie. — Bill Johnson

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You definitely have to be focused at certain times in your life and in your career, but at the end of the day, there's only so much you can do. Then you just have to chock it up to fate. — Skylar Astin