Westrans Quotes & Sayings

The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a little application to the rules and orders of the House [of Commons], throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface. — Lord Chesterfield

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose. — Epictetus

I actually did ponder doing the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie thing and get a kid from Ethiopia. But you know, I already have an ashtray. — Zach Braff

Every decision you've made will impact how things go. The player's also the
architect of what happens. — Casey Hudson

I don't know to what author you may be alluding, but believe me I feel what I think; and I seem to be philosophizing only for those who do not think what they feel, because they blind themselves with their own sentiment. I know that for many people this self-blinding seems much more "human"; but the contrary is really true. — Luigi Pirandello

We both loved her. And you couldn't control who you loved, even if you wanted to. — Kami Garcia

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed. — William Hazlitt

I receive emails from readers that both break my heart and give me a profound sense of connection. Several months ago, I received an email from a teacher who told me that 'Legend' was the first book one of her troubled young students had ever read to the end. He cried when he finished it. Stories like that stay with you forever. — Marie Lu

We have not come [here] for fame; we have come [here] for the salvation of others. — Dada Bhagwan

You wanna do this ... you wanna go right now ... do you want to, GO? ... then go get The Rock a bologna sandwich because this doesn't concern you. — Dwayne Johnson

Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future. — Matt Ridley

I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.' — Lance Bass