Truncated Cone Quotes

#1. As the sun rose I could see Etna, a truncated cone with a plume of smoke over it like the quill of a pen stuck in a pewter inkpot, rising out of the haze to the north of where I was treading water.

Eric Newby

#2. I'm sure you despise me," she sobbed, looking up at him through tearful eyes.
"Despise you?!" Langdon exclaimed. "I don't have the slightest idea who you are! All you've done is lie to me!"
"I know," she said softly. "I'm sorry. I've been trying to do the right thing.

Dan Brown

#3. Some leaders are not intimidated by opposition; they actually thrive on it. It wakes them up. It energizes them. It calls them to battle. It causes them to mobilize their thoughts and energy.

John Ortberg

#4. It is a serious mistake to judge God within the narrow limits of our own understanding and abilities.

Sterling W. Sill

#5. [T]his is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen, in small things they show themselves as they are

Nicolas Chamfort

#7. British researchers found that one smile can generate the same level of brain stimulation as up to 2,000 bars of chocolate. The same study found that smiling is as stimulating as receiving up to 16,000 pounds Sterling in cash. That's like 25 grand a smile.

Ron Gutman

#8. Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.

Chuck Knox

#9. Through ... lies you try to run your life and manipulate others ... Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship ...

Wm. Paul Young

#10. Human, witch, goblin, or whatever, a kiss is what is it is created from. Every moment, every heartache, every breath of fear and passion and longing was all wound up in this one kiss. It was more feeling than any word could express.

Cyndi Goodgame

#11. He groaned and I saw his face. "Curran!" I would've preferred a homicidal lunatic. Oh, wait ...

Ilona Andrews

#12. The two boys faced each other. There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled common-sense.

William Golding

#13. There are things I want, too. Things I want to change. I'm tired of only being there for a good time, Brenna. I'm tired of being a corrupter of the people I love. I no one wants to be the perpetual fuck up.

Liz Reinhardt

#14. God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Franz Kafka

#15. My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

Beverly Sills