Slyter Contracting Quotes & Sayings

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny — Tryon Edwards

It took us 6 years to get the right weapons to fight BokoHaram ... — Goodluck Jonathan

The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed. The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of governments. Really peaceful countries do not waste life and energy in war preparations, with the result that peace is maintained. — Emma Goldman

I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to. — Ang Lee

Hannah wasn't my first kiss, but the first kiss that mattered: the first kiss with someone who mattered. — Jay Asher

The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it. — Thomas Dubay

We are now able to create virtual realities on computers. Are we all living in one created by someone in the future? — Greg Fitzsimmons

I need a dog pretty badly. I dreamed of dogs last night. They sat in a circle and looked at me and I wanted all of them. — John Steinbeck

she thought maybe she'd be a rock star, but she just ended up another name on the very long list of people Lou Reed was rude to. Yeah, — Cari Luna

Hermione had taken his hand again and was gripping it tightly. He could not look at her, but returned the pressure, now taking deep, sharp gulps of the night air, trying to steady himself, trying to regain control. He should have brought something to give them, and he had not thought of it, and every plant in the graveyard was leafless and frozen. But Hermione raised her wand, moved it in a circle through the air, and a wreath of Christmas roses blossomed before them. Harry caught it and laid it on his parent's grave.
As soon as he stood up he wanted to leave: He did not think he could stand another moment there. He put his arm around Hermione's shoulders, and she put hers around his waist, and they turned in silence and walked away through the snow, past Dumbledore's mother and sister, back toward the dark church and the out-of-sight kissing gate. — J.K. Rowling

In our friendship I had spent a lot of time telling Lucy to pull herself up, to get over the past and move on. That was my role, the best of my Catholic education in action, and I didn't worry about it because I knew that she had other friends, friends who were as close to her as I was, who were more tender. She had practical friends and emotional friends, friends with big houses to crash in and friends who were good for wild fun, and she knit us together to find the perfect balance of what she needed from all of us. — Ann Patchett

Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna. — Mark Twain

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples. — Charles Dickens

A fertile, open mind is like a sponge. Every individual, event and episode in one's life is a learning experience. It's up to you what you want to emulate; the good or the bad, as your personality is constantly evolving. The innocence of a baby, the selfless love of a pet dog, or a stray comment from a stranger - all these can have an everlasting effect and help to mould your character. It's these incidents and experiences, episodes and the people you meet along the way, that weave the tapestry of your life. — Pratima Kapur