Seston Quotes

#1. If [his] peace of mind depended on me promising to be a sweet and careful little girl, he'd be smart to get used to chaos.

Sharon Green

#2. First follow Nature, and your judgment frame
By her just standard, which is still the same:
Unerring nature, still divinely bright,
One clear, unchanged, and universal light,
Life, force, and beauty must to all impart,
At once the source, and end, and test of art.

Alexander Pope

#3. George Washington once wrote that leading by conviction gave him "a consolation within that no earthly efforts can deprive me of." He continued: "The arrows of malevolence, however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me.

George W. Bush

#4. You cannot appreciate what you have never experienced. Sadly, full appreciation tends to come only after the experience is past.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#5. The Party was trying to kill the sex instinct, or, if it could not be killed, then to distort it and dirty it.

George Orwell

#6. If Big Data's two running stories have been surveillance and money, for the last three years I've been working on a third: the human story.

Christian Rudder

#7. Spring is a season of the soul to regain its strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. I can't make you understand
because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of
a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of
those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll
never want to escape from them as I do.

Margaret Mitchell

#9. I don't have a philosophy as such. Maybe a guiding principle, Carnegie's A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possessionof anything else to which he is justly entitled.' I'm very singular, driven. I like control... of myself and those around me.

E.L. James

#10. Gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide

Terry Pratchett

#11. If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?

Maeve Binchy

#12. her outstretched hand jutting into the engine room, offering the life-sized figure of Nike that stood in her palm, like, Here, have some Victory!

Rick Riordan

#13. A lot of life, Michael had learned, came down to trying to fix things that weren't fixable.

Justin Cronin

#14. We've lost that very simple transaction that's so pure, where a reader can say, "I support what you're doing, here's my dollar. I know that you guys are gonna be watchdogs or keep the government accountable, so here's my 50-cent contribution each day." It's just so tidy, and I think so inspiring.

Dave Eggers