Shinjis Sdat Quotes & Sayings

More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death. — Robert A. Heinlein

You'd eat a plate, and call it pleasantly crunchy. — Shannon Hale

Tea. He watched her while she made it, made it, of course, all wrong: the water not on the boil, the teapot unheated, too few leaves. She said, I never quite understand why English people like teas so. — Graham Greene

Being influential is not the mark of a great book. — Mortimer Adler

When you focus, you can achieve anything. If you have no focus, you will achieve nothing. — David Clark

The Saudis, and in some cases the CIA, had encouraged and funded their foreign jihads, and these men had seen combat, lived hard in the mountains, did what their religion asked them to do. Then they came home to Egypt and were rewarded with a death sentence. The result was the creation of a standing army of jihadis who couldn't go home. They would go on to found al-Qaeda, which became something of a jihadi veterans association. History is always obvious in retrospect, but in this case the rise of al-Qaeda should have been fairly easy to predict. — Richard Engel

We may not be responsible for another's addiction or the life history that preceded it, but many painful situations could be avoided if we recognized that we are responsible for the way we ourselves enter into the interaction. And that, to put it most simply, means dealing with our own stuff. — Gabor Mate

When we appear to be "more a loser than a victor" on the Path it is easy to lose sight of the fact that we are growing spiritually. — Tom Payne

Lexicographers are language reporters. — Erin McKean

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties. — Joseph Story

Repeat after me... life... it's only a movie. — Dan Farish

I'll be the first to admit I wasn't very happy doing what I did [escorting] nor was I very talented at it, so perhaps that's what worked to make it boring for me. However it's hard for me to imagine that a lot of young women who would enjoy and be good at being an escort. — Marie Calloway