Slicktext Quotes & Sayings

I think there are always people that you meet in your life that scare you a little, but not because of the terror in their eyes so much as their unpredictability. — Joshua Sasse

Bai Shen did not move. He gazed down at Miri, and she could still see the fear, but this time it was mixed with guilt and deep raging sorrow that she could only guess had less to do with her, and everything to do with setting one's heart on a plan that had proven itself to be The Dumbest Move Alive. — Marjorie M. Liu

When we say to someone, "Oh you're behaving like an animal," it's actually a compliment rather than an insult. We need to work for a science of peace and build a culture of empathy, and emphasize the positive, pro-social side of the character of other animals and ourselves. It's truly who we and other animals are. — Marc Bekoff

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. — Harry S. Truman

Have you met thy Lord, my son?
Have you been dead before, father? — Toba Beta

Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by two main components: an inability to interact socially with other people with joint attention to understand other people's thoughts. — Gerald Fischbach

The distinguished dead are clay in the hands of writers, and chance determines the shapes that their characters assume in the books written about them. — Janet Malcolm

The older I get the more I realize how simple life is and how complicated we make it ... — James A. Murphy

What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering
that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them. — Margaret Drabble

We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own. — Nathaniel Branden