Veian Quotes & Sayings

One of the biggest sicknesses this world has is expectation. We all expect other people to be a certain way or to do a certain thing. Most people, they spend their whole lives under the wants of other people. — Eric Shonkwiler

Forgive me-he mumbled against her lips. Please. Forgive me for what I'm going to do to you.

~Shade — Larissa Ione

It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession. — Ha-Joon Chang

They were somewhere near Chelyabinsk 56, someone said. You don't want to go there, a Russian added. One of Stalin's biggest messes. — Kim Stanley Robinson

The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles. — Bertrand Russell

No conclusion can be more agreable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limites of human reason and capacity — David Hume

No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not. — Arthur Koestler

In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. — Michael Crichton

It's scary to sign a six-year contract for something that you don't necessarily know about. And yet I did that most every year. I've done a lot of failed pilots. — Lizzy Caplan

Only through the empowerment of society to be the very best it can be in a moral way, might we acheive peace through achievement. — Carl T. Johnson

They say that in D.C., all the museums and the monuments have been concessioned out and turned into a tourist park that now generates about 10 percent of the Government's revenue.
The Feds could run the concession themselves and probably keep more of the gross, but that's not the point. It's a philosophical thing. A back-to-basics thing. Government should govern. It's not in the entertainment industry, is it? Leave entertaining to Industry weirdos
people who majored in tap dancing. Feds aren't like that. Feds are serious people. Poli-sci majors. Student council presidents. Debate club chairpersons. The kinds of people who have the grit to wear a dark wool suit and a tightly buttoned collar even when the temperature has greenhoused up to a hundred and ten degrees and the humidity is thick enough to stall a jumbo jet. The kinds of people who feel most at home on the dark side of a one-way mirror. — Neal Stephenson

I love what I do. But I want to go home, just for four days, then I'll get back on the road again. — V V Brown

Two glittering eyes peered at the three young men and the catawyld clicked the back of its tongue in warning.
"I hate these things," Bracy growled — Nicole Sager

Whoever you are holding me now in hand,
Without one thing all will be useless,
I give you fair warning before you attempt me further,
I am not what you supposed, but far different."
-from "Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand — Walt Whitman

I've tried to move on with my life and my career for the last two years and do my own thing, and 'American Idol' and FOX, they've just been making it really tough for me to do that. — Corey Clark