"Sienna Rivers, ex-nerd, undisputed reigning chess champion of the class of 09 and the proverbial all round wise-ass degenerate pain in your backside."
Ali Harper
"People fear what they do not understand."
A.J. Darkholme
"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"All politicians are said to be thieves but all thieves are not politicians which implies that some thieves do have a conscience."
Amit Abraham
"Where do the words gowhen we have said them?"
Margaret Atwood
"People never cease to amaze me."
Tina Yothers
"Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Tis my opinion every man cheats in his way and he is only honest who is not discovered."
Susannah Centlivre
"Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety."
Aesop
"The monkeys, she explained, were considered reincarnated politicians, which made Rue laugh and the stick entirely understandable."
Gail Carriger
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference."
Reinhold Niebuhr
"People have a tendency of filtering their memories – exaggerate the positives and downplay their weaknesses and faults. Self-preservation will be another obstacle you will have to surmount when it comes to suppressed memories."
Alexis Lawrence
"To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs."
Ruth Rendell
"If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?"
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape."
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