Vermeyince Quotes

#1. I will do my best to reduce the price of oil to expand the life span of oil at least for two decades or three decades.

Ahmed Zaki Yamani

#2. To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

Martin Seligman

#3. She's a surprise this old earth, one big surprise after another since before she separated from the moon who circles and circles like the mate of a shot goose.

Peter Heller

#4. I don't think I'll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I'd write plays even if they were never done again. You're at the mercy of whatever talent you have.

Horton Foote

#5. If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.

John Berry

#6. Whenever we have had a need for a national security or public safety issue, Congress has always followed the recommendations of the White House, regardless of who is in control, giving them the resources to keep America safe and to enforce our laws.

Jim Sensenbrenner

#7. We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.

Jon Krakauer

#8. Some stains never wash out.

Jodi Picoult

#9. We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure way of robbing us of our private property rights and other rights along with them.

Richard Pipes

#10. We have a saying in my country: If you must strike, make sure to follow the hurt with a kiss.

Anne Fortier

#11. The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going to be paying benefits for 13-15 years. That's one of the reasons why this pyramid scheme isn't working.

Joe Heck

#12. Staying silent, staying away from him ... that was the hardest thing I've ever done.

Rick Riordan

#13. And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

Pablo Neruda

#14. If only [there] really was a door and [you] could walk through it into another life, where threads didn't snarl and stitches didn't go all tight and tiny. Where people loved you and didn't leave you for someone else.

Karen Hancock

#15. We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

Lois Lowry