Preterition Quotes

#1. Maybe it's better to end things this way. Better to have a tragic and sudden end than to have a long, drawn-out one where we realize that we're just too different, and that love alone is not enough to bind us. I think all these things. I believe none of them.

Nicola Yoon

#2. For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.

Pico Iyer

#3. We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says.

Brad Pitt

#4. At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.

Frank Pittman

#5. Once a year I will clean my room, just because I feel I should.

Usain Bolt

#6. If you're so bored, learn to knit. I'm not that good of a hobby."
"If I ever learn to knit, the first thing I'll make is a noose to hang myself with.

Eva Morgan

#7. The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.

Leila Janah

#8. Yet one priest remaining in this country has the same significance as a single candle burning in the catacombs.

Shusaku Endo

#9. I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work on several varying projects at once.

Colette Freedman

#10. That which we allow to exist, to flourish freely according to its own rhythms, is superior to anything our little hands create.

William Powers

#11. If we do not 'Americanize' our immigrants by luring them to participate in our best civilization ... they will contribute to the degeneration of our political body and thus de-Americanize and destroy our national life.

Patricia Albjerg Graham

#12. James slid into his seat and the girl next to him asked, "What's wrong with your eyes?" It wasn't until he heard the horror in the teacher's voice - "Shirley Byron!" - that he realized he was supposed to be embarrassed; the next time it happened, he had learned his lesson and turned red right away.

Celeste Ng

#13. Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

Doug Larson

#14. Believing in yourself is normally half the battle.

Kristin Blizzard