Stercus Orto Quotes

#1. Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, 'Here, kitty, kitty.'

David Letterman

#2. If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

Paul Gallico

#3. When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'.

Sun Tzu

#4. Venture outside your comfort zone. To stop growing is to stop living.

Robin Roberts

#5. The enchanted world arising out of the dim mists of the past, into which he just stepped, quivered-and disappeared.

Ivan Turgenev

#6. I felt myself becoming empty, he said, as though I had been living until now on the reserves I had accumulated over the years and they had gradually dwindled away.

Rachel Cusk

#7. And it is not in any of our interests to have the balance of power turned on its head like this. An overly mighty French king is no improvement over an overly mighty English one.

Sharon Kay Penman

#8. The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.

Najib Mikati

#9. A river is an appropriate frontier. Water is neutral and in its impartial winding makes the national boundary look like an act of God. - OPE

Paul Theroux

#10. Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.

J.G. Ballard

#11. You may not believe in anything called a work-life balance, but your body certainly does. You need to monitor and nurture your body.

Vivek Wadhwa