Typhoeus Stickies Quotes & Sayings

The happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all. — Frances Wright

You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective. — Shannon Lucid

For the first time in my life as a flirt - as something more than just a girl - I found the words. They didn't simply appear. I reasoned them out. I spoke them. Because they were true, and I didn't need anything more than that. "She doesn't deserve you," I said, and before he could dispute it, I continued. "She takes and takes and takes, but she doesn't take the right things. And she doesn't give the right things back. You're going away now. You don't need her. You probably never needed her. She's going to make it hell for you, but it's over. You know that. Free yourself."
He looked at me like I was some kind of oracle. In the best of all worlds, it would've been a look of love, an understanding that I was the one, I was it. But it wasn't that. Instead it was something almost as sweet - that mix of recognition and appreciation. That gift of worth. — David Levithan

I have enough to last for the rest of my life. — Steve Jobs

People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection. — Amitav Ghosh

He saw himself and his fathers crowding round their ancestral shrine waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice and finding nothing but ashes of bygone days.. — Chinua Achebe

I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out. — Nat King Cole

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese? — Charles De Gaulle

I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller. — H. G. Bissinger