Tvitor Quotes & Sayings

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants. — Elizabeth Montagu

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career. — Dabney Coleman

When we smile, the world smiles with us: each experience of joy is an experience of joy for all people and a victory for human kind. — Keith Raniere

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. — Robert Trout

If you want to be prominent, get out and try for something. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Linus Pauling — Linus Pauling

People who seek the truth never stop looking for it — Phil Mitchell

Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If all the world be worth the winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee. — John Dryden

Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the spring of 1927, to cut the rediscount rate. Benjamin Strong, Governor of the bank, was chief advocate of this unwise measure, which was taken largely at the behest of Montagu Norman of the Bank of England ... At the time of the Banks action I warned of its consequences ... I felt that sooner or later the market had to break. — Bernard Baruch

Weren't you wearing a purity ring when we got here? Aren't you supposed to be saving yourself?" Shanti asked.
"Yeah," Mary Lou answered. "And then I thought, for what? You save leftovers. My sex is not a leftover, and it is not a Christmas present. — Libba Bray

The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects. — Vladimir Putin

I kept walking. Have you ever done that? Just walk. Just walk and have no idea where you're going? It wasn't a good feeling, but not a bad one either. I felt caged and free at the same time, like it was only myself that wouldn't allow me to feel either great or miserable. — Markus Zusak

The thirst that from the soul doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine. — George Eliot

I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage. — Jim Crace