Compar'd Quotes

#1. If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,
When other petty griefs have done their spite,
But in the onset come: so shall I taste
At first the very worst of fortune's might;
And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,
Compar'd with loss of thee will not seem so.

William Shakespeare

#2. Still alive? (Randy)
No. I'm a walking corpse. Can't you tell? (Steele)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.

John Gardner

#4. My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun.

John Green

#5. Katy had her Bible out. She wanted to read from 2 Corinthians, the first chapter, where the Christians were told that the sufferings of Christ would overflow into their lives as surely as the comfort would.

Karen Kingsbury

#6. Nothing goes to windward like a 747.

Tracee Ellis Ross

#7. The kids were probably with Grant. And if Grant was out in the park, well ... what better person to get them safely through Jurassic Park than a dinosaur expert?

Michael Crichton

#8. The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.

Ina Garten

#9. You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that's under your control and the other isn't.

John Wooden

#10. When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.

Walter Cronkite

#11. Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.

Pat Brown

#12. The most important thing I've learned since becoming CEO is context. It's how your company fits in with the world and how you respond to it.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

#13. With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

Ezra Pound

#14. A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

Viktor E. Frankl