Sisselman Group Quotes & Sayings

No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions — Tony Abbott

The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings. — Robert Ardrey

Lost causes had a romantic charm for her, — Edith Wharton

What does God mean to me? I guess I was made the way I am for some reason, and I've been able to find the talent I have, and I've been able to use it, so I'm grateful for that. I believe in God; [but] I'm not saying I'm highly religious. — Michael Phelps

As with other paired bracketing devices (such as parentheses, dashes and quotation marks), there is actual mental cruelty involved , incidentally, in opening up a pair of commas and then neglecting to deliver the closing one. The reader hears the first shoe drop and then strains in agony to hear the second. In dramatic terms, it's like putting a gun on the mantelpiece in Act I and then having the heroine drown herself quietly offstage in the bath during the interval. It's just not cricket. Take the example, 'The Highland Terrier is the cutest, and perhaps the best of all dog species.' Sensitive people trained to listen for the second comma (after 'best') find themselves quite stranded by that kind of thing. They feel cheated and giddy. In very bad cases, they fall over. — Lynne Truss

To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason - Purpose - Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge - Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve - Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. — Ayn Rand

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players. — Kristi Yamaguchi

For often we wickedly blind ourselves to the occasions of teaching and admonishing them, sometimes even of reprimanding and chiding them, either because we shrink from the labor or are ashamed to offend them, or because we fear to lose good friendships, — Augustine Of Hippo

You never know what will save you. — Abbey Wilson

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it. — Lorrie Moore

I am well aware that each day is a day stolen from death. I am not — Clarice Lispector

Same old notes, Blanche thinks at one point, but arranged into unfamiliar music. — Emma Donoghue

Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family. — Paul McCartney

I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along. — Michael Emerson