Uom Quotes & Sayings

Justice is happiness according to virtue. — John Rawls

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. — Roald Dahl

I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope. — Adam Beach

Nothing chases away the sand or the memories engraved on the back of my eyelids. They play on a continuous loop, with smells and sound and sorrow. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now. — Shirley Maclaine

Little moments nostalgia
does not have to extol, because they were already nice to begin with. — Fiona Maazel

By late-2000 Wal-Mart's losses were running in excess of £150 million a year in Germany from its 95 stores, and the company was ranked bottom of all retailers in Germany in an annual customer satisfaction survey. — Nigel F. Piercy

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC. — Seth Gordon

Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile,
They will, they will not; fools that on them trust;
For in their speech is death, hell in their smile.
[It., Femmina e cosa garrula e fallace:
Vuole e disvuole, e folle uom chi sen fida,
Si tra se volge.] — Torquato Tasso

The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness
And time to speak it in. You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster. — William Shakespeare

I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons. — Shirley Jackson

Could you try not aiming so much?" he asked me, still standing there. "If you hit him when you aim, it'll just be luck." He was speaking, communicating, and yet not breaking the spell. I then broke it. Quite deliberately. "How can it be luck if I aim?" I said back to him, not loud (despite the italics) but with rather more irritation in my voice than I was actually feeling. He didn't say anything for a moment but simply stood balanced on the curb, looking at me, I knew imperfectly, with love. "Because it will be," he said. "You'll be glad if you hit his marble - Ira's marble - won't you? Won't you be glad? And if you're glad when you hit somebody's marble, then you sort of secretly didn't expect too much to do it. So there'd have to be some luck in it, there'd have to be slightly quite a lot of accident in it. — J.D. Salinger

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice. — Maxwell Maltz