Runtime Library Quotes & Sayings

Certainly she no longer thinks of the future, because every day the future proves itself to be a duplicate of the present. So instead she roots through the past. — David R. Gillham

Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the same difficulties, but the big difference is the respect given by people due to the quality of the services which are provided. — Jaime Lerner

State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure. Their inflexibility goes hand in hand with their planned and goal-directed nature, and when they fail the efforts of the state are directed not to changing them but to changing people's belief that they have failed. — Roger Scruton

When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Was unique to him; a woman apart from his others in every way. I wished that could be enough to kill my jealousy. — Sylvia Day

A bullet costs 2 cents, anyone can afford that — Sherman Alexie

True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation — Joseph Addison

Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from. — Baha'u'llah

The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it were - the most conspicuous part of it; and the nearer the approaches are that God makes to us, the more intimate and condescending the communication of his benefits, the more attentively are we called to consider them. — John Calvin

Were our pupil's disposition so bizarre that he would rather hear a tall story than the account of a great voyage or a wise discussion; that at the sound of a drum calling the youthful ardour of his comrades to arms he would turn aside for the drum of a troop of jugglers; that he would actually find it no more delightful and pleasant to return victorious covered in the dust of battle than after winning a prize for tennis or dancing; then I know no remedy except that his tutor should quickly strangle him when nobody is looking or apprentice him to make fairy-cakes in some goodly town - even if he were the heir of a Duke - following Plato's precept that functions should be allocated not according to the endowments of men's fathers but the endowments of their souls. — Michel De Montaigne

When you get negative people out of your life, negative things stop happening to you. — Randy Gage

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child. — Shirley Williams

Every time I've built character, I've regretted it. — Bill Watterson

It's the little mistakes that lead to big mistakes. — Pittacus Lore