Stlhomes Quotes & Sayings

They want us to pretend that we see the world as they pretend they see it. They need some sort of sanction from us. — Ayn Rand

The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with confidence. Why has man rooted himself thus firmly in the earth, but that he may rise in the same proportion into the heavens above? — Henry David Thoreau

Hong Kong is the supermarket of Asia. — Eleanor Coppola

It's a tremendous way of getting people to buy more at lower cost to the producer. There's no question that that's an incentive to buy. Everybody loves a bargain. — Marion Nestle

I always jest to people, the Oval Office is the kind of place where people stand outside, they're getting ready to come in and tell me what for, and they walk in and get overwhelmed in the atmosphere, and they say, man, you're looking pretty. — George W. Bush

Schoolchildren don't normally learn this poem about Columbus's second voyage to Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic today): "In fourteen hundred and ninety-five, sixteen hundred people he kidnapped alive." Columbus — Brian D. McLaren

The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away. — Colonel Sanders

I was worried on a personal level because I wanted to be slightly taller than I am, ideally. But I've now accepted it. Basically, I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can either be really bitter about it or you can make loads of funny jokes. — Daniel Radcliffe

I didn't just see fireworks, I felt them. I felt like I'd eaten a million lightning bugs when I was with him. He made my soul brighter, and that's all you can ask for when you're in love. — Viola Shipman

Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives. — Patrick Dixon

Now I'm about to make myself feel better, you stupid selfish shit," I informed him in a calm, cold voice.
"Go ahead, Beau, hit me."
I didn't need another invitation ... — Abbi Glines

Be good to your work, your word, and your friend. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It seems there is no such thing as a purely good deed, a completely right action. Even this task, which i took on for the very best of reasons, involves making choices that are not that "good", choices that might even be "wrong". — Salman Rushdie