Specifical Quotes & Sayings

Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain? — William James

I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth.
"I gave up," I whispered.
"Don't give up," she whispered back. — Mitch Albom

I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do. — David Ogilvy

You look like a really well-dressed pirate carting around an ugly treasure chest. — J.D. Robb

She always pretended to herself that she didn't let Lauren help because she was trying to be the perfect mother-in-law, but really, when you didn't let a woman help, it was a way of keeping her at a distance, of letting her know that she wasn't family, of saying I don't like you enough to let you into my kitchen. Lauren reappeared — Liane Moriarty

I was also very lucky to be a teammate of two of the greatest players to have ever played the game. I learned very early on by playing for Frank Robinson and with Henry Aaron that even the greatest players in the game were just one of the guys. — Robin Yount

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality. — Bill Gates

I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it. — Jason Mewes

My fear again waned low, since a natural phenomenon tends to dispel broodings over the unknown. — H.P. Lovecraft

Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler. — Paul Theroux

Forgive me," Ash murmured, and I heard the faintest of tremors beneath his voice. "But I can't ... I won't ... give her up. Not now, when I've just found her."
-Ash — Julie Kagawa