Rezervele Quotes & Sayings

What I wanted was that walk: slate and windy, the sky overcast but not threatening rain. I — Kathleen Rooney

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being. — Georg Simmel

Well, that was a bit stupid of you," said Ginny angrily, "seeing as you don't know anyone but me who's been possessed by You-Know-Who, and I can tell you how it feels."
Harry remained quite still as the impact of these words hit him. Then he turned on the spot to face her.
"I forgot," he said.
"Lucky you," said Ginny coolly.
"I'm sorry," Harry said, and he meant it. — J.K. Rowling

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves. — Milton Friedman

Does the Pope shit in the woods? — Steven A. Moore

Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only. — Bell Hooks

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. — John Ruskin

She thought I was ... soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off. — Nick Hornby

...And look at Ohio State. How do you bring down a coach and penalize a whole program because a couple of kids exchanged some gear for tattoos and a decent man tried to protect them? These are kids! By definition, they make mistakes. — Emily Giffin

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else. — Mignon McLaughlin

Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world ... Eminem. Rap's a black thing. — Chubby Checker

Laying a good foundation in all you do secures the future because when the storm comes it will definitely trouble you but you won't fall.
Regards
Esther — Esther Samson

In jargon nobody ever does anything, feels anything, or causes anything; nobody has an opinion. Opinions are had; causes result in; factors affect. Everything is reduced to vague abstraction. The writer can even abolish himself, for jargon never sounds as though anybody had written it; it seems simply to come about, as from a machine, and it talks mechanically of things that come about, through some indistinct interaction of forces." - Robert Waddell, "Formal Prose and Jargon," in Modern Essays on Writing and Style 84, 89 (Paul C. Wermuth ed., 1964). — Bryan A. Garner

Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war. — Georges Clemenceau