Seleccionado Quotes & Sayings

Things aren't always going to be in our favor, so when they aren't, we have to take what we can from those experiences and move forward. — Alexandra Elle

The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones, trees and rocks; and he, wretchedly waiting in the exterior halls, could not even get his finger on one tiny, tiny lever. — Christina Stead

Second place is the first loser. — Dennis Anderson

Apparently it'd been too long since her last social orgasm ... — Jill Shalvis

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied. — Samuel Johnson

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change. — Andy Stanley

We are good souls with good heart for good deeds. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The guy with Bennett let go of his elbow and started patting his pockets. He came out with the switchblade, now closed up again, and a Sig Sauer automatic, a P226, I thought, favored by Special Forces everywhere. — Lee Child

You can have, what wish for. — Lailah Gifty Akita

People needed proof that Utopia was nothing more than a theory, an illusion read in fictional stories. — Soroosh Shahrivar

I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley. — Cheech Marin

It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult. — Natasha Trethewey

One Band, One Dream, One Direction — One Direction

Man lives in time but his life transcends time. — Rousas John Rushdoony