Reading Is Succeeding Quotes & Sayings

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it. — Brian Mulroney

Since everything is travelling in this universe, everything in this universe is a traveller! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

And in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes. — Jacques Derrida

My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way. — Mahatma Gandhi

What is the difference between "creator" and "craftsman"? The one who creates bestows being itself, he brings something out of nothing - ex nihilo sui et subiecti, as the Latin puts it - and this, in the strict sense, is a mode of operation which belongs to the Almighty alone. The craftsman, by contrast, uses something that already exists, to which he gives form and meaning. — Pope John Paul II

Yes, she was a scandal.
Her brother simply didn't know it.
"I fell in the Serpentine today."
"Yes, well, that doesn't usually happen to women in London. But it's not so much of a scandal as it is a challenge. — Sarah MacLean

The key to motivation is motive. — Stephen Covey

Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow. — Tom Wilson

Baboons, I observed. One with a big gun and the other with a big mouth, and both with alpha-sized, flaming pink asses. — A.J. Aalto

Money is a symptom of poverty, after all, and Manfred never has to pay for anything. — Charles Stross

Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease. — Jack Levin

I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out. — Alice Waters

Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the wisest men of antiquity have uttered, and whose worth the wise of every succeeding age have assured us of; and yet we learn to read only as far as Easy Reading, the primers and classbooks, and when we leave school, the Little Reading, and story books, which are for boys and beginners; and our reading, our conversation and thinking, are all on a very low level, worthy only of pygmies and manikins. — Henry David Thoreau

Off we go." Puck sighed. "You coming, Grimalkin?" "Oh, definitely." Grimalkin landed with a soft thump in the snow. His golden eyes, bright with amusement, regarded me knowingly. "I would not miss this for the world. — Julie Kagawa

The King sat down and I noticed that a brood of small transparent roots grew from the soles of his feet. 'Yes, I am also errant. My roots can find no soil and this is why they are visible. — Leonora Carrington