Retenes Quotes & Sayings

The main work of haunting is done by the living — Judith Richardson

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired. — Cynthia Voigt

The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids. — Henry David Thoreau

China saves too much, produces too much, sells too much to Americans and consumes too little. — Henry Paulson

There's more technology in your car than there is in your computer. It's got thousands of parts in it. It's extremely sophisticated, all that robotics. — Jennifer Granholm

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way. — Haruki Murakami

You might not think a hippo could inspire terror. Screaming "Hippo!" doesn't have the same impact as screaming "Shark!" But I'm telling you - as the Egyptian Queen careened to one side, its paddle wheel lifting completely out of the water, and I saw that monster emerge from the deep, I nearly discovered the hieroglyphs for accident in my pants. — Rick Riordan

I am not a fiction reader. If I already do, I read fiction always more like the illustration of a philosophical-political thesis than a novel. My preference is history. If one does not know history, he is condemned to relive it. — Louis Tobback

I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then the innate principle of self-preservation, wisely implanted in our natures, for obvious purposes, opposes that wish, and makes us endeavour to spin out our thread as long as we can, however decayed and rotten it may be. — Lord Chesterfield

Chance is the providence of adventurers. — Laurence Sterne

It is very difficult to love people who are good to us: it is easier to imagine we are loving people we can condescend to. — Nicholas Mosley