Sonically Pleasing Quotes & Sayings

Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliations, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning [to] consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul? — Eamon De Valera

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story. — Lionel Shriver

Struggling with his fate and trying to save himself, as — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you are ignorant of Lora Delane Porter's books that is your affair. Perhaps you are more to be pitied than censured. Nature probably gave you the wrong shape of forehead. Mrs. Porter herself would have put it down to some atavistic tendency or pre-natal influence. She put most things down to that. She blamed nearly all the defects of the modern world, from weak intellects to in-growing toe-nails, on long-dead ladies and gentlemen who, safe in the family vault, imagined that they had established their alibi. She subpoenaed grandfathers and even great-grandfathers to give evidence to show that the reason Twentieth-Century Willie squinted or had to spend his winters in Arizona was their own shocking health 'way back in the days beyond recall. — P.G. Wodehouse

For many people, when they come to Twitter, the language is opaque. We need to push the scaffolding to the background and bring the content forward. The media, the photos, the videos. — Dick Costolo

I looked around, and I saw cottages everywhere. I thought it was time they lived in apartments. — Harry Triguboff

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient. — David Coverdale

A random series will always present some detectable pattern. I — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The day of heroes has passed," Uncle Edwarn said. "The stories of people breaking out of history belong to another world. We have reached an era of modernism, both louder and more silent at the same time. You watch. Where once kings and warriors shaped the world, now quiet men in offices will do the same - and do it far, far more effectively. — Brandon Sanderson

The tower of success stands on the pillars of vision, action, patience and the character to withstand criticisms. — Amit Ray

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way ... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively. — Chris Crutcher

Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace? — Charles Dickens