Slentz Club Quotes & Sayings

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written. — Edward Abbey

Oh, gosh, Olive. I'm so embarrassed." "No need to be," Olive tells her. "We all want to kill someone at some point." (179) — Elizabeth Strout

Governments too steady and uniform, as they are seldom free, so are they, in the judgment of some attended with another sensible inconvenience: they abate the active powers of men; depress courage, invention, and genius; and produce a universal lethary in the people. — David Hume

He also got two black sweaters he might actually wear, some Avon cologne in a bottle shaped like an electric guitar, and an empty key ring - which his dad made sure everybody noticed. — Rainbow Rowell

No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this; they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident. — Anthony De Mello

I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me. — Tony Kushner

The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most. — Irving Fisher

For the first time in a long time, connection had replaced connectedness. I'd never seen anything like it before, not on this scale. The effervescent pulse of human interaction. People turning to faces instead of screens. It was a splendor of its own. — Lauren Miller

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided. — Leon Panetta

I'm a very open book as far as the way I relate to people. — Will Rothhaar

The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition, and to revenge; but when it is guided by the sense of propriety and benevolence, it becomes the parent of every virtue, and, if those virtues are accompanied with equal abilities, a family, a state, or an empire may be indebted for their safety and prosperity to the undaunted courage of a single man. — Edward Gibbon

I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him. — Stan Lee