Reconditioning Old Quotes & Sayings

I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day. — Robert Duvall

Don't die with the story inside! — Gary D. Drechsel

God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others. — Alexander Pushkin

Only the suppressed word is dangerous. — Ludwig Borne

What I want to be, girls, is beautiful. Beautiful means 'full of beauty.' Beautiful is not about how you look on the outside. Beautiful is about what you're made of. Beautiful people spend time discovering what their idea of beauty on this earth is. They know themselves well enough to know what they love, and they love themselves enough to fill up with a little of their particular kind of beauty each day. — Glennon Doyle Melton

In those times panics were common, — Alexandre Dumas

The building has shielded generators. The power will be back on in the next three minutes. We need to move. Through — Richard Kadrey

If a movie is nominated for, say, an Academy award, that movie will instantly become popular in Japan. There's always been a bit of a complex the Japanese have about being taken seriously in the West. — Hirokazu Koreeda

I said, Quiet!"
Tiffany was so much startled by this peremptory reminder that she gasped, and stood staring up at the Nonesuch as though she could not believe that he was speaking not to his cousin, but actually to her. She drew in her breath audibly, and clenched her hands. Miss Trent cast a look of entreaty at sir Waldo, but he ignored it. He strolled up to the infuriated beauty, and pushed up her chin.
"Now, you may listen to me, my child!" he said sternly. "You are becoming a dead bore, and I don't tolerate bores. Neither do I tolerate noisy tantrums. Unless you want to be soundly smacked, enact me no ill-bred scenes!"
There was a moment's astonished silence. Laurence broke it, seizing his cousin's hand, and fervently shaking it.
"I knew you was a right one!" he declared. "A great gun, Waldo! Damme, a Trojan! — Georgette Heyer

Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone. — William Joyce

Body sizes can be remarkable for their variations from accepted norms, but still explain almost nothing about the lives led inside those bodies. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?' — Brian Tracy

Your timing is amazing," Kami told him. "By which I mean, I am amazed by it. — Sarah Rees Brennan

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. — Max Beerbohm