Tables Turned Bridges Burned Quotes & Sayings

It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will change or die. It is the future they are innocent of. Fifty years on we look at them with the godly knowledge of how they turne dout after all - who they married, the date of their death - with no thought for who will one day be holding photographs of us. — Ian McEwan

I write down the three measurements which Lou and I agreed are central to knowing if the company is making money: net profit, ROI and cash flow. — Eliyahu M. Goldratt

So that even although he had from the beginning given it no other form than that of chaos, provided only he had established certain laws of nature, and had lent it his concurrence to enable it to act as it is wont to do, it may be believed, without discredit to the miracle of creation, that, in this way alone, things purely material might, in course of time, have become such as we observe them at present; and their nature is much more easily conceived when they are beheld coming in this manner gradually into existence, than when they are only considered as produced at once in a finished and perfect state. — Rene Descartes

I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that. — Adam Rickitt

Forget all you know & learn something every day. — Charles James

The hawk is on my fist. Thirty ounces of death in a feathered jacket; a being whose world is drawn in plots and vectors that pull her towards lives' ends. — Helen Macdonald

What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect. — Elizabeth Bowen

Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create. — Vanna Bonta

For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs. — Kristin Cashore

Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth. — Nazim Hikmet

Beautiful eyes are those that show the beautiful thoughts that burn below. — Ellen Palmer Allerton

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow. — John Dickinson

I am aware that some of my adventures may seem incredible; but they are, nevertheless, strictly true. I — Harriet Jacobs