Secata Quotes & Sayings

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money. — James Lee Burke

I never knew the media would be so interested in my personal life. — Kid Cudi

When we're young we think everything has to be wrapped up in a month. But you should take the long view on this one. Before you make a move, be sure, Anya. And even once you're sure, tread carefully. And remember you don't have to do what they expect you to do" -Charles Delacroix — Gabrielle Zevin

For young fellows like them, the war was a chance to become men, to see the world and save it and return home as American citizens. It didn't occur to either of them that lives would be lost, that the world they were to defend would shift under their feet and never be the same again. They only dreamed of the adventure. — Adriana Trigiani

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh. — Mahatma Gandhi

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are. — Jalaluddin Rumi

But his smile was slow and wide. I don't know, Clark. Some people just won't be told. — Jojo Moyes

The worst thing a girl could do on a date is fart louder than me. — Niall Horan

the way a rich man was born was, is exactly the way a slave was born — Mariam

It was important not to offend against the laws of magic. If a woman left you it was because you did not cast the right spell over her, or else because someone else cast a stronger enchantment than yours, or else because your marriage was cursed in such a way that it cut the ties of love between husband and wife. Why did So-and-so enjoy success in his businesses? Because he visited the right enchanter. There was a thing in the emperor that rebelled against all this flummery, for was it not a kind of infantilization of the self to give up one's power of agency and believe that such power resided outside oneself rather than within? This was also his objection to God, that his existence deprived human beings of the right to form ethical structures by themselves. — Salman Rushdie

What problems?" "Well for starters.. you're an evil duck killer. — Nicholas Sparks

World news carefully edited so that it's not too disturbing, but disturbing enough to make you glad that you weren't born in a foreign country. — Anonymous