Recounted States Quotes & Sayings

I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head. — Michel De Montaigne

We know what willpower is, but by some misguided conception, many of us believe we have to be a certain type of person, strong, determined, extroverted, to be able to be willful, to exercise willpower. Not so. We all have it and just don't know how to use it. — Rosemary Altea

It went bust," said Uncle Alex, with a certain grim, Darwinian satisfaction. My — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you deal with that? — Deyth Banger

You can defend your kingdom, or you can defend your people, Majesty. You don't have the manpower to do both at once."
"People are more important than land. — Erika Johansen

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people. — Tony Campolo

I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities. — Theodore Roosevelt

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic. — Charlie Watts

The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large. — Edmund Morgan

You two would make a cute couple, she says as she passes by with a full dough tray in her arms. I don't know why she says it. We aren't doing anything but folding boxes with the other drivers and telling dirty jokes.
But we would.
We would make a cute couple. — A.S. King

First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby ... I guarantee you. — Clint Eastwood

So perhaps the real secret to style is filling yourself to the absolute brim with engagement. Loving not wisely, but too well and all that. — Tim Gunn

It's not about adding diversity for the sake of diversity, it's about subtracting homogeneity for the sake of realism. — Mary Robinette Kowal