Steinwald Echo Quotes & Sayings

Flora had also learned the degraded art of 'tasting' unread books, and now, whenever her skimming eye lit on a phrase about heavy shapes, or sweat, or howls or bedposts, she just put the book back on the shelf, unread. — Stella Gibbons

But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened. — Neil Jordan

Those who are inclined to casual cruelty say that inside a fat girl is a thin girl and a lot of chocolate. — Terry Pratchett

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance. — Brian Tracy

Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now. A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass. — Richard Adams

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Benno blushed violently. "I am not a murderer!" he protested. "No one is, until he commits his first crime," William said philosophically. — Umberto Eco

Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor! — Sathya Sai Baba

I reminded myself of a leftover piece of meat that was starting to spoil. — Barbara Honigmann

A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy. — Larry Wall

Friend: So, what do you wanna be when you're older!

Me: Oh! Well I

Brain: Dead

Me: No brain not now

Brain: Dead in the ground

Me: Shut the fuck up

Brain: A dead ass fucker in the ground — Unknown

I added up all the money the church paid me for the first 25 years and gave it all back. — Rick Warren

If you are treated like dirt long enough, you begin to fell like dirt — Richard O'Connor

No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something. — Thomas Carlyle

I was not very keen on joining the family business ... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality. — Uday Kotak