Struck By Lightning Memorable Quotes & Sayings

Be rigorous about your HR decisions. There is a difference between rigorous and ruthless. — James C. Collins

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.' — John McAfee

When the beaded curtain parts with a sound like rain, it is Marco who enters the fortune-teller's chamber, and Isobel immediately flips her veil from her face, the impossibly thin black silk floating back over her head like mist. — Erin Morgenstern

He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man. — James Beattie

In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth. — Viggo Mortensen

I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat. — Charles Bukowski

You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person. — David Morrissey

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third. — Bill Vaughan

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers. — Barbara Kingsolver

I haven't slept with him, Mom." I whispered, lying through my teeth. I just didn't want to discuss my sex life with her. She would probably critique my oral skills or something.
"I should have known. You don't sleep with anybody. That's why you can't keep a man. — L.D. Davis

All the fatt's in the fire. — John Marston

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty. — Samuel Johnson

The sidewalk was completely empty. It was Sunday, early April. An icy wind teetered trash cans and turned my cheeks to marble. In Vietnam we had no weather like that. Here in Cleveland people call it spring. — Paul Fleischman