Simplon Orient Quotes

#1. [The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.

Paul Murray Kendall

#2. Love is not selfish or unkind. Nor is it boastful or disloyal. Love is simply a deep feeling found within the heart that money cannot buy.

April Haney

#3. Sow the seeds of life - humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.

Frederick William Robertson

#4. Too many cooks might wreck the whole dish.

Stieg Larsson

#5. One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.

Stifyn Emrys

#7. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies ...

Joseph Conrad

#8. I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

Freddie Mercury

#9. Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.

Gautama Buddha

#10. Yeah! I got type-two diabetes! I'm sure there's going to be some media scandal now, saying I got it because I gained and lost weight for movie parts or something - but I doubt that.

Tom Hanks

#11. No matter what your politics is, we ought to be thanking people for volunteering.

George W. Bush

#12. Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.

Bill Hybels