Wischmeyer Family Quotes & Sayings

In the weeks we'd been thrown together that summer, our lives had scarcely touched, but we had crossed to the other bank, where time stops and heaven reaches down to earth and gives us that ration of what is from birth divinely ours. We looked the other way. We spoke of everything but. But we've always known, and not saying anything now confirmed it all the more. We had found the stars, you and I. And this is given once only. — Jamie O'Neill

Oh God," I said. "I'm Zmey's daughter. Zmey junior. Zmeyette, even. — Richelle Mead

As it happened, the guy who was the honor man or best in our class was part of our platoon. He never had as many kills as I did, though, at least partly because he was sent to the Philippines for a few months while I spent my time in Iraq. You need skill to be a sniper, but you also need opportunity. And luck. — Chris Kyle

One of the embarrassing facts from social psychology is that most stereotypes are true, in the only sense that stereotypes are ever true: on average. — J. Michael Bailey

Don't put too much pressure on Jack Wilshere ... in years to come I think he will be an Arsenal great like Liam Brady — Paul Merson

You know what I've never done at a sporting event? Boo. I don't get the whole idea of booing. You're booing someone because they just failed at something? Seriously? Do you know how hard it is to do what they're doing? That they're among the best in the world at what they do? — Stuart Scott

The engineers were under imperative orders — Sam Davis

Animals are my friends ... and I don't eat my friends. — George Bernard Shaw

He was responsible for administering an army that lacked time-tested procedures and routinized policies, so every decision became an improvisational act. — Joseph J. Ellis

Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery! — Charles Dickens

Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure. — Matsuo Basho

In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state. — Ian Bremmer

When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble and put a pipe into this glass I had melted and blew a bubble. From that moment, I wanted to be a glassblower. — Dale Chihuly