Ur Quan Quotes & Sayings

James started to laugh. His chin hurt where she'd smacked him twice, his foot throbbed where she'd stepped on it, and his entire body felt as if he'd swum through a rosebush, which wasn't as far off the truth as it sounded. Yet still he started to laugh. — Julia Quinn

When we move the ball, we're one of the best teams in the league. — Tyson Chandler

I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me. — Patti LuPone

In any situation, I'm going to be good. — James Harden

All things that have been in this world, all things that are or will be in it, have to vanish: we have our sad farewell to give them. — Thomas Carlyle

Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests. — Warren Buffett

I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied. — John F. Kennedy

We see a promise as a personal law, and we see the people who break them as private-life criminals. We think it automatically, one of those truths that just is to us: breaking a promise is a bad, bad thing. A promise can be as buoyant as whispered words or solemn as a marriage vow, but we view it as something pure and untouchable when it should never be either of those things. If a promise is a personal law, a contract, then it ought to be layered with fine print, rules and conditions, promises within those promises, and whether we like it or not, it ought to be something we can snatch back, that we should snatch back, if those rules are violated. — Deb Caletti

I didn't even start college until I was 21. — Gayle Forman

We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching. — Paul Tsongas

We not only believe what we see, to some extent we see what we believe ... The implications of our beliefs are frightening. — Richard Gregory

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. — Thomas Mann

It's not failure, it's practice — Brigitta Moon

Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go. — Quincy Jones