Thorngarde Quotes & Sayings

Don't do cocaine. Don't race trains. And avoid AIDS situations. — Charlie Munger

In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable. — Kirk Cameron

Nonetheless, a question remains before us all the same: what is a novelist to do with ordinary, completely "usual" people, and how can he present them to the reader so as to make them at least somewhat interesting? To bypass them altogether in a story is quite impossible, because ordinary people are constantly and for the most part the necessary links in the chain of everyday events; in bypassing them we would thus violate plausibility. To fill novels with nothing but types or even simply, for the sake of interest, with strange and nonexistent people, would be implausible
and perhaps uninteresting as well. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And I was also proud of living up to NASA's belief that I was capable of commanding the world's spaceship. On my first day at JSC, I hadn't been an obvious candidate. I was a pilot. I didn't have much leadership experience to speak of at all. Worse: I was a Canadian pilot without much leadership experience. Square astronaut, round hole. But somehow, I'd managed to push myself through it, and here was the truly amazing part: along the way, I'd become a good fit. It had only taken 21 years. — Chris Hadfield

Gone, but not forgotten. — Phillip Margolin

Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that. — Steven Chu

Never leave the one you love for the one you like, it usually doesn't turn out right. — Nako

We can love ourselves by loving the earth. — Wangari Maathai

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them. — Margaret Thatcher

Whenever a controversy arises over sexual or reproductive morals, you can bet that religious leaders from several different faith groups will be prominently represented on influential committees, or on panel discussions on radio or television. — Richard Dawkins

I am a hooker with a heart of gold. — Natasha Lyonne

And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't quite love but was so close I could believe in it sometimes. — Lauren Oliver

If you wanted to know shit about a woman, all you had to do was ask the woman who was pretending to be her friend. — Karin Slaughter

Then a gun goes off. Once, twice. Three times. — Veronica Roth