60 quotes found
“In politics, nothing good ever comes from the unexpected.”
“The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterprises no one now can understand.”
“Security is by far the city's predominant business.”
“Eighteen pockets in one suit? I haven't the time.”
“Grant made the perfect candidate, a war hero with indistinct views on most political issues.”
“Watching movies is my one distraction.”
“Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.”
“Sand was dribbling out of the bag of her attention, faster and faster.”
“Children contend with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.”
“She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.”
“Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person concerning whom the tale is told.”
“As with our colleges, so with a hundred ‘modern improvements;’ there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting compound interest to the last for ...”
“It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.”
“I was quite possibly in the midst of losing my mind. I needed to get away from people until I figured out if I actually was losing my mind.”
“I’d find someone else. No distractions. Men get in the way of ambition. Plus, they laugh at you when you fail”
“weren’t you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside yougoing and coming and often st...”
“The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. – Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed”
“He closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention.”
“... answered his knock with a smile, a short one forced through because she was at heart a warm person, not given to the dark mood swings which now plagued her.”
