Rediscount Window Quotes & Sayings

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice. — Lord Acton

If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them. — Sandra Brown

The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it. — Anthony Greenwald

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished. — Daniel M. Gilbert

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. — Henry David Thoreau

First of all, he was not my type. He was nice, considerate, unselfish and grounded; qualities I'd never experienced in a man. Usually, I went for the self centered, screwed up, "I'm lost, will you be my mother" type. — Brenda Perlin

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. — John Cheever

The purpose of all my photos is to capture the power of nature and convey it in a way that inspires someone to feel passionate and connected to the image, — Peter Lik

He was one of those men who can both get money and keep it. He must have been a millionaire. He kept accounts. He introduced a post-office atmosphere into his shady dealings. Not a stamp, not a pen-nib escaped him, and he would stay up half the night to figure out what had happened to a mislaid farthing. You cannot conceive the caution and the meanness of that man! He would have made a Syrian pawn-broker appear like Diamond Jim Brady. But he had brains, and also nerve. At the same time, he was as smooth as glycerine. He looked like an octopus - he had a dirtyish pallor, no shape, evil eyes, and a beak. In shaking hands with him, you felt that six or seven other hands were investigating your pockets while a dozen eyes watched you. He was feared. He made money out of everything. But he was still unknown to the police. — Gerald Kersh

An enthusiastic philosopher, of whose name we are not informed, had constructed a very satisfactory theory on some subject or other, and was not a little proud of it. "But the facts, my dear fellow," said his friend, "the facts do not agree with your theory." - "Don't they?" replied the philosopher, shrugging his shoulders, "then, tant pis pour les faits;" - so much the worse for the facts! — Charles Mackay

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream. — Sigmund Freud