Sevres Treaty Quotes & Sayings

Man, after all, is stupid, phenomenally stupid. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

None of us marry perfection; we marry potential. — Robert D. Hales

Reliance Insurance and Home Insurance were run into the ground, for example, their promises proved to be worthless. — Warren Buffett

The press in New York has tended to favor New Society in every period, and to take it seriously, if only because it provides news. — Tom Wolfe

I did not want to hurt you earlier," he said. His voice had returned to the even tone from before. "But you are going to have to learn. It might not be something you want to do, but you are no longer allowed to make those decisions. — Kristin Elyon

Is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, — Eckhart Tolle

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand. — John Cheever

There she was, welcoming him in, farting prrrrrrp like ten thousand earthquakes, belching arrrp and og like a million volcanoes, while the whole universe roared with approving laughter. She swung tits like sagging moons at him, drew from black teeth an endless snake of bacon-rind, pelted him with balls of ear-wax and snuffled green snot in his direction. The thrones roared and the powers were helpless. Enderby was suffocated by smells: sulphuretted hydrogren, unwashed armpits, halitosis, faeces, standing urine, putrefying meat - all thrust into his mouth and nostrils in squelchy balls. 'Help,' he tried to call. 'Help help help.' He fell, crawled, crying, 'Help, help.' The black, which was solid laughter and filth, closed on him. He gave one last scream before yielding to it. — Anthony Burgess

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children. — Henry Morton Stanley

In the sixties, dear Bill, we did not say 'top' and 'bottom' - we said 'pitcher' and 'catcher' ... — John Irving

To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being."- Biologist John Lubbock. — John Lubbock

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most. — Margaret Atwood

Sure, he wanted her in a bad way, but he also had this insane urge to help her, to give her back everything she'd lost. He couldn't explain it, but Lily mattered to him. In just two weeks, she'd gone from a fuck bet to someone he cared about. — Apryl Baker