Socotran Quotes & Sayings

Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what. — Jodi Picoult

However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power it is. On those occasions when we've seen Lord Foul act directly, he seems to exert the withering force of pure scorn. IMHO, that's pretty intense. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Peace, tremulous, unexpected, sent a taproot out of nowhere into Morgan's heart. — Patricia A. McKillip

Learn something that is valuable to others. Learn everything about it. Then maximize your earning from that knowledge. And then start your own business. That is what you have to do if you want to become very wealthy. — Porter Stansberry

I get called all these horrible names by Lindsey Graham, who I don't even know. — Donald Trump

It's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time. — Barbara Kingsolver

Bizarrely, I actually feel safer the older I get, like people will expect less from me, and I can become more and more invisible, yet more and more eccentric. — Marian Keyes

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens. — Al Franken

When our citizens are determined to openly wear pistols on their belts to go shopping at Walmart, that signifies to me a failure on the part of the macho ideal. Ostensibly, the handgun is displayed to let evildoers know, in no uncertain terms, that this is not a person with whom to trifle. It then follows that the wearing of the pistol presumes a situation in which the bearer will need to shoot someone, rendering the brandishing of the weapon a badge of fear, does it not? It occurs to me that if we keep on turning to such "masculine" methodology to solve our conflicts, the only inevitable ending is a bunch of somebody's family lying in a bloody schoolhouse, movie theater, or smoking Japanese city. I guess we just hope it's not our family? I don't like the odds. — Nick Offerman

When money disappears, we soon understand the power of absence. — Mason Cooley