Xquery Substring Quotes & Sayings

Racist writing is a craft failure. — Kwame Dawes

At five in the morning the Loire is still and sumptuous with mist. The water is beautiful at that time of the day, cool and magically pale, the sandbanks rising like lost continents. The water smells of night, and here and there a spray of new sunlight makes mica shadows on the surface. — Joanne Harris

One survey conducted in 2010 estimated that the average parent spends $6,800 on baby items before a child's first birthday.7.9 — Charles Duhigg

I heard words
and words full
of holes
aching. — Robert Creeley

An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle? — George R R Martin

On balance, the financial system subracts value from society — John C. Bogle

No one looks for pots of gold, it just happens. Sure, some people are born with an incredible financial ability, and some people are natural salesmen, but creating a business, driving a venture, mobilizing an army, is not something you are born to do - it just happens, by accident. — Ronnie Apteker

A random series will always present some detectable pattern. I — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good. — John Piper