Untraceable Text Quotes & Sayings

Ascribing meaning to life is a piece of cake compared to actually living it."
-from "Hear the Wind Sing — Haruki Murakami

They can only hurt you if you let them. — Wallis Warfield Simpson

Everyone's got their hands out waitin' for you to take one. You gotta learn when to take someone's hand before you fall. — Kristen Ashley

The sweater didn't fit me, of course. Even with the sleeves rolled up I looked like a baggy monkey picking bananas. But to my way of thinking, at least in winter, woolly warmth trumps freezing fashion any day of the week. — Alan Bradley

Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. — Paulo Coelho

Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs. — Blanche Lincoln

I was drunk at five in the afternoon.

Luckily, we were in Las Vegas. I contemplated the fact that being drunk in Las Vegas was like being sober everywhere else in the world. So... normal. — Penny Reid

I think international is a place that, actually, The Huffington Post and AOL have started to make moves in. — Tim Armstrong

The voyage had proved a human and financial disaster. Of the 198 men who rounded the Cape, only 25 returned alive. Worse still, two of the three ships had been lost and the one that did manage to limp into port was carrying not spices but scurvy. Lancaster had proved--if proof was needed--that the spice trade involved risks that London's merchants could ill afford. It was not until they learned that the Dutch had entered the spice race, and achieved a remarkable success, that they would consider financing a new expedition to the islands of the East Indies. — Giles Milton