"The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!"

-- Kenneth Oppel

#Moving Quotes #Meat Quotes #Waste Quotes

“No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections are but beams and trains to lead us upwards to the infinite mercy of God in Christ.”
“A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. Sheâ€™s a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.”
“I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'”
“A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.”
“Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative activity, change; it is essential for continuous development.”
“I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a posh restaurant and the hero hands the waiter $3. But the best part is when he says, "Keep the change."”
“We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.”
“I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.”

Source : "I was very greedy, says Enron trial's star witness" by Richard Wray, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2006.

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