"Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?"

-- Erica Jong

#Phrases Quotes #Language Quotes #Menace Quotes

“Alarm stole over me on little kitten feet.”

Source : Faith Hunter (2011). “Mercy Blade: A Jane Yellowrock Novel”, p.78, Penguin
“I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world.”

Source : "Scarlett Johansson Was Too Sexy For ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2011.
“In the playoffs will beats skill.”
“Comedians have a tendency to have a limited range, they tend to do one thing and do it very well, but it's limited.”
“Go looking for conflict, and you'll find it. Go looking for people to take advantage of you, and they generally will. See the world as a dog-eat-dog place, and you'll always find a bigger dog looking at you as if you're his next meal. Go looking for the best in people, and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy, and good will you'll find. Ultimately, the world treats you more or less the way you expect to be treated.”

Source : Bob Burg, John David Mann (2015). “The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea”, p.18, Penguin
“Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.”
“Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.”

Source : Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1970). “A history of the national woman's rights movement”
“Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.”

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