Streaptesse Quotes & Sayings

Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Only 8% of our worry will come to pass. 92% of our worry is wasted. DON'T PANIC — Mark Gorman

It reminds me of the story that my American godmother used to tell me years and years ago about two frogs who fell into a pail of milk. One said: 'Ooh, I'm drowning, I'm drowning!' The other frog said, 'I'm not going to drown.' 'How can you stop drowning?' asked the other frog. 'Why, I'm going to hustle around, and hustle around, and hustle around like mad,' said the second frog. Next morning the first frog had given up and drowned, and the second frog, having hustled around all night, was sitting there in the pail, right on top of a pat of butter. Everyone, — Agatha Christie

Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift. — Maurice Sendak

Maybe I find him ... interesting. Attractive in an uptight sort of way. But that won't keep me from killing him if he does something stupid - like try to double-cross us. That is something thats nonnegotiable, no matter how much fuck potential he might have. — Jennifer Estep

Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory. — Jerome Bruner

I'm sorry if I seem to digress, but that is precisely what I was thinking at the moment. It's the way my mind works. Things are not the same in real life as they are in, for instance, the fictional world of Sherlock Holmes. Brains, in reality, do not go clickety-clickety-clickety-click from A to B to C to D and so forth, rushing like a train along the rails, until at the end, with a happy "Toot-toot!" they arrive at their destination, Z, and the case is suddenly solved. Quite the contrary. In reality, analytical minds such as my own are forever shooting wildly off in all directions simultaneously. It's like joyously hitting jelly with a sledgehammer; like exploding galaxies; like a display of fireworks in which the pyrotechnic engineer has had a bit too much to drink and set off the whole conglobulation all at once, by accident. — Alan Bradley

Vision is critical to life, whether it is through your eyes or through your mind, seeing where you are going will help you get there. Open up and be aware of what is ahead as best you can. — Richard Morin

We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the country meets its targets, while reinforcing our country in the heart of the euro and the European Union. — Yiannis Stournaras

Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses. — Nathaniel Parker Willis

Humility is the worst form of conceit. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

He wants his lover to trust him. To surrender herself to him completely. To let him orchestrate the pleasures of her body. But he leaves the ultimate choice up to her. He lets her have one hand free, and that is the moment Blaine captured on the canvas. — J. Kenner

Life is a mystical and tragic thing. It is a journey often full of fear, when it ought to be full of hope. It's fascinating to look back on your life and feel as though most of it was a precursor to the rest of it; to what was always supposed to be. — L.K. Hill

It was as if, Pulaski sometimes thought, the '60s had tipped the entire country on end and shaken it like a box of cereal until all the flakes ended up in the East Village. — Garth Risk Hallberg