Storks How Do You Like Me Now Quotes & Sayings

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh. — Erich Maria Remarque

A man is known by the company he organizes. — Ambrose Bierce

That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it. — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon

No one can say he is himself, until first he knows that he is, and then what himself is. In fact, nobody is himself, and himself is nobody. — George MacDonald

Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World vultures, but biologists have come to realize that the former are related to storks, the latter to hawks, and that their resemblances result from their common lifestyle. — Jared Diamond

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art. — Gore Vidal

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world? — Gene Stratton-Porter

Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one. — Teresa Of Avila

The only power desirable is the grace to pray. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As the Takers see it, the gods gave man the same choice they gave Achilles: a brief life of glory, or a long, uneventful life in obscurity. And the Takers chose a brief life of glory. — Daniel Quinn

Diplomacy: the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash. — Art Linkletter