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“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
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“Fate is an obligation I don't understand--the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine.”
Source : Andrew X. Pham (2010). “Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam”, p.135, Macmillan
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“It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.”
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“The very best kind of Saddam Hussein is the very dead kind.”
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“Is there a short-eared koobish, then?' Mmmyes ...' said J.Lo. 'But it is technically not really a koobish. Is more alike a kind of singing pumpkin.' We had conversations like these all the time, where I just eventually gave up.”
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“Let me get this straight," I say. "You're practically ordering me to die. What kind of guidance counselor are you?”
Source : Adam Selzer (2010). “I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It”, p.83, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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“It's not the kind of tuna that I eat.”
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“I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.”
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“I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.”
Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1862). “A Chaplet of Verses”, p.106
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“Two words that will change your life.... Yes Lord!”
