Voluteer Quotes & Sayings

He is the kind of man who breakes biscuits in two and saves the other half for later — Joanne Harris

I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist. — Hippolyte Taine

My mother had not acted for ten years. Not since a reviewer wrote that her portrayal of Lady Macbeth put him in mind of an exasperated society hostess burdened with unmannerly guests who had lost the new tennis balls, left the bathrooms in a mess, and finished the gin. — Victoria Clayton

You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts. — Napoleon Hill

This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship - replete with ever more rights and responsibilities - would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework that would guarantee that the men who fought felt that they themselves in a formal and contractual sense had ratified the conditions of their own battle service. The ancient Western world would soon come to define itself by culture rather than by race, skin color, or language. That idea alone would eventually bring enormous advantages to its armies on the battlefield. (p. 122) — Victor Davis Hanson

For everything that's wonderful, there's something wicked, too. That's the price you pay for magic. It's worth it, I thought. — Danielle Paige

Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible readership. In The Ingenuity Gap he wants us all to wake-up to the fearful possibility that our blithe trust in science and technology may be misplaced. Human ingenuity may not be capable of coping with two emerging crises of this century and the next: population growth and environmental despoliation. Read Homer Dixon's wake-up call and you will see the future very differently. — Michael Ignatieff

There has to be beauty left in the world, Julia," said Kiyu. "Otherwise we have nothing. — Erica Lindquist

Did you see how she got all hot under the collar?" Grandma Frida said in a theatrical whisper behind me. She's not over him.

"I can hear you! — Ilona Andrews

When you are not practicing, remember somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win. — Peter Bergman

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians. — Stuart Symington

If you don't like peas,it is probably because you have not had them fresh.It is the difference between reading a great book and reading the summary on the back — Lemony Snicket

Love was supposed to be a kind of blissful insanity. — Patricia Highsmith

I honestly don't think you're taken seriously until you're 30. Any ideas I've ever taken to the BBC, they've told me I wasn't ready for it. — Rhys Thomas