Uracyn Quotes & Sayings

And that made him wonder if a person who is forced into bad situations over and over again when they're too weak or helpless to do anything about it will eventually make bad choices of their own simply because they've become habituated to them. — Jonathan Maberry

Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die. There as here it was the same solemn pause, the lull that follows battle; it was the silence of defeat. But the silence now enveloping his dead friend, so dense, so much akin to the nocturnal silence of the streets and of the town set free at last, made Rieux cruelly aware that this defeat was final, the last disastrous battle that ends a war and makes peace itself an ill beyond all remedy. The doctor could not tell if Tarrou had found peace, now that all was over, but for himself he had a feeling that no peace was possible to him henceforth, any more than there can an armistice for a mother bereaved of a son or for a man who buries his friend. — Albert Camus

It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile. — Roger Bannister

Portland's good at wet. The best. — Devon Monk

If people think you're powerful, then you usually are. — Sarah Painter

We hear a great deal about the German "Fatherland" - we like the sound. But the word "Father" is the whole of it. The "land" is nothing: the "Father" is key to the music. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Nations not possessing great power can indulge in the luxury of
criticism of others; those possessing it have the responsibility of
decision. Faced with a clear challenge, the decision not to use
one's power must be as deliberate as the decision to use it. The con — Richard M. Nixon

No need to act, i let my fear show "He killed himself," i whispered.
Eve raised an eyebrow. "Fourteen times?"
"He had bad aim. — Maria V. Snyder

Industry looks at research and development for energy efficiency, lowering material costs, so on and so forth. — Jamshyd Godrej

I will go for a simple girl who's completely in tune with me and who gets along with my family. — Suresh Raina

Every day things change, but basically they stay the same — Dave Matthews