Select And Trust Quotes & Sayings

could make them laugh, and although he couldn't make them like him, that was absolutely okay. They were dead-enders headed for dead-end marriages and dead-end jobs. They would raise dead-end kids and dandle dead-end grandkids before coming to their own dead ends in dead-end hospitals and nursing homes, rocketing off into darkness believing they had lived the American Dream and Jesus would meet them at the gates of heaven with the Welcome Wagon. Morris was meant for better things. He just didn't know what they were. — Stephen King

You are hiding something from me, I say and Sidney Grice shakes his head. 'No,' he tells me quietly. 'I am hiding a great many things'. — M.R.C. Kasasian

So I guess this means Domme Isa will be retired for a while until he feels satiated. But I'll be damned if she'll be retired forever. I want to know the real Dylan because apparently I've only been fucking his representative. — Ella Dominguez

Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face. — Loudon Wainwright III

...the leader must 1) avoid getting swamped in detail; 2) not be petty; 3) not be pompous; 4) know how to select people to fit the task; 5) trust others to do a job without the leader's meddling; 6) be capable of clear decisions; 7) inspire confidence. — J. Oswald Sanders

Only through the empowerment of society to be the very best it can be in a moral way, might we acheive peace through achievement. — Carl T. Johnson

The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation. — Swami Vivekananda

It's nice to be important but it's even more important to be nice. I grew up in a world where there were a lot of big physical guys and woman so it's always important to be nice to me. — Dwayne Johnson

Being in an M.F.A. is like living in a sci-fi biosphere on an alien planet, where everyone shares your obscure visionary notions: namely, that literature matters, that English professors know more than other people, that typing, alone, in a library, is what everyone should be doing on a Friday night. Better to tell strangers that speaking Klingon is what turns you on. — Adam Johnson

Food makes travel so exceptional, because you get to taste what it's actually supposed to taste like. To eat the real Pad Thai or finally have a proper curry is something pretty amazing. — Meghan Markle

If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell. — Karen Russell

Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time. — Helmut Jahn