Taxisnet Cy Quotes & Sayings

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community. — Sebastiao Salgado

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance — Epictetus

That the boat did not upset I simply state as a fact. Why it did not upset I am unable to offer any reason. I have often thought about the matter since, but I have never succeeded in arriving at any satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon.
Possibly the result may have been brought about by the natural obstinacy of all things in this world. The boat may possibly have come to the conclusion, judging from a cursory view of our behaviour, that we had come out for a morning's suicide, and had thereupon determined to disappoint us. That is the only suggestion I can offer. — Jerome K. Jerome

The only remedy is to take the liver of a toad, bind it tight about your throat, stand naked by the full moon in a barrel of eels' eyes — J.K. Rowling

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. — Henry George

You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road. — John Fogerty

All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work. — Pierre-Georges Latecoere

By what right does White, in an absolutely even position, such as after move one, when both sides have advanced 1. e4, sacrifice a pawn, whose recapture is quite uncertain, and open up his kingside to attack? And then follow up this policy by leaving the check of the black queen open? None whatever! — Emanuel Lasker

But I hope you will
use your brains. Use your brains. Don't be distracted. Once you make that mistake, of being
distracted, over a man, your life will never be your own. You will get the burden, a woman always does. — Alice Munro

When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives you that capacity for self-reflection that you simply do not have without the agency of books. — Jeanette Winterson

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them. — Werner Heisenberg

It is with charity as with money
the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away. — Christian Nestell Bovee

When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that they're chasing was commonplace. — Lennie James

Americanism is not a matter of skin or color. — Daniel Inouye