Wyjon Quotes & Sayings

Covert action is by definition outside the ambit of democracy. — Hodding Carter III

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less. — Andrew Tobias

A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help. — Lionel Shriver

The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite. — Werner Heisenberg

Your word is the only thing you can give and keep at the same time. — Carlos Wallace

Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane. — Claude Monet

We all have to get our hope from somewhere, and if getting lost between the pages of a deep book gives me hope, then I'll keep on getting lost, all the while hoping that one day I'll have a real love I can get lost in. Because it will happen, to each of us. One day we'll get so lost in love that we won't be able to find our way back out. — Emma Hart

This is my heart on CRACK. Robin when she sees Creek — Diane J. Reed

My plant is probably dead."
Camryn looks slightly surprised. "You have a plant?"
I smile. "Yeah, her name's Georgia. — J.A. Redmerski

No footprints in the sand. Pebbles and bits of weed are strung in scalloped lines. Three outer islands bear low stone forts; a green lantern glows on the tip of a jetty. It feels appropriate somehow, to have reached the edge of the continent, to have only the hammered sea left in front of him. — Anthony Doerr

I believe I've got the best of both worlds - a modern man with old fashioned values. I'm happy to be a house husband but won't let my wife carry her own bag. — Ian Watson

I always like to remind leaders who talk about their search for balance that the word itself means a resting place between two opposing forces. — Greg Salciccioli

(As a rule of thumb, the sample size must be at least 30 for the central limit theorem to hold true.) This — Charles Wheelan

He was nuts. He'd scammed the quarterly mental health exam and was certifiably insane.
Not that that's ever stopped me from sleeping with anyone. — Jordan Castillo Price

It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks. — James Payn