Spjev O Quotes & Sayings

As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater. — Charles Duhigg

He whispered as he kissed down her neck. "I would love nothing more than to take you right here on the counter, Fire Angel, but if I'm late to meet with your grandmothers, they might just decide to throw my ass on a funeral pyre and I wouldn't be back for three days. — Brynn Myers

I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change. — Don DeLillo

We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab. — Linda M. Godwin

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved — Joyce Carol Oates

My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears. — Lisa See

they argue that belief in a transcendent being conveys a genetic advantage: that couples who follow one of the three religions of the Book and maintain patriarchal values have more children than atheists or agnostics. You see less education among women, less hedonism and individualism. And to a large degree, this belief in transcendence can be passed on genetically. Conversions, or cases where people grow up to reject family values, are statistically insignificant. In the vast majority of cases, people stick with whatever metaphysical system they grow up in. That's why atheist humanism - the basis of any 'pluralist society' - is doomed. — Michel Houellebecq

to some asshole who has more credit in his pockets than I do? Not going to happen. — D.L. Jackson

Before you'll change, something important must be at risk. — Richard Bach

Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future. — Yogi Berra

We are the sum of our thoughts. What you choose to dwell on will dictate your emotions. — James Patterson

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.
Of course those who write short books have even less to say. — Mark Z. Danielewski

Being brave is being scared and worried and still doing it [what you do]. Because if you're just a wacko, a mashugana, a crazy guy, then you're not brave, your nuts! — Mel Brooks

Today's business model is bad for people, bad for the economy and bad for stability and democracy, — Sharan Burrow

For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin. — Pierre Boulez