Aouda Quotes

#1. Aouda fastened her great eyes, "clear as the sacred lakes of the Himalaya," upon him; but the intractable Fogg, as reserved as ever, did not seem at all inclined to throw himself into this lake.

Jules Verne

#2. There are many organizations and individuals advocating for the public interest online - what's good for ordinary people - but other interests are more numerous and powerful than they are. I want that to change. And that's what I want to do next.

Sue Gardner

#3. Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.

Carl Webb

#4. Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars.

Jared Diamond

#5. I used to dream big. It seemed like somewhere along the way I had forgotten about that. And gave up.

Karina Halle

#6. Nice. Wait--- so, does he know? Does he know he's the only person who's ever flipped your pancake?

Meg Maguire

#7. That's what war was. A great motion and then a great stillness in which the winner crouches and the loser lies facing the sky.

Kathy Hepinstall

#8. People don't like what I represent, and they think I'm trying to represent the whole gay community just because I'm a gay person and I make music. By default I'm supposed to represent a whole community? I think that's ridiculous.

Steve Grand

#9. It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

Oscar Wilde

#10. If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives,
then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls.
You think their ways are wrong.
They think you are dinner.

Terry Goodkind

#11. You are the night."
"I am the night," I repeated.
"You are the night."
I cocked my head, sending him a questioning look. "I am the night?"
"Jane!"
"Why is it that when you say my name, it sounds like a curse word?

Molly Harper

#12. No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

Walter Savage Landor

#13. What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?

Patricia Highsmith