Xbutton1 Quotes & Sayings

Country has to stop giving electricity for free. It is like giving people cocaine. — Farooq Abdullah

Your boss takes a dim view of SEX? — Vincent H. O'Neil

How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course?
[Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem,
Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa
Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.] — Horace

I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From the relationship I have found in all the tones there must result a living harmony of colors, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition. — Henri Matisse

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with. — Charles Farrar Browne

The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes. — Susan B. Anthony

The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more. — Gijs De Vries

Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine. — Rowan Atkinson

I'm obsessed with leather jackets! — Joanna Garcia

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do! — Seneca The Younger

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses. — Stephen King

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger. — Louise Rennison

Throughout the Arab and Islamic world the feeling is that we are now in top gear for a war of civilizations, a clash of civilizations. Support for the United States is very low and there are no voices within the Muslim world, except for a very few. — Husain Haqqani

When we choose to engage reality as the best each moment can be, we are shaping more positive experiences for others. — Bryant McGill

Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about the ways that understanding our own history helps make us who we are. Michelle Brafman is an insightful writer who never falters or flinches in her quest to uncover the hearts of her characters. — Carolyn Parkhurst