#dec

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #life #life

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up! ↗

— Mark Twain

#humor #mind #humor

I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with the expectation of seducing me into matrimony, and a couple of their mothers came to blows. It was hilari—I mean, dreadful. Simply dreadful. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#humor #humor

Decent people have too much respect for others to be overachievers. ↗

— Bauvard

#decency #funny #humor #funny

Just hear me out. While you were napping, I was busy chatting up our allies. Didn't you know--your woman's a golden-tongued ambassador! My sisters always said I graduated from the shock-and-awe school of diplomacy, but joke 'em if they can't take a fuck, right? ↗

— Kresley Cole

#berserker #declan-chase #dreams-of-a-dark-warrior #immortals-after-dark #kresley-cole

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. ↗

— Peter F. Drucker

#decision-making #leadership #business

Mike did not seem to grasp the idea of Creation itself. Well, Jubal wasn't sure that he did, either--he had long ago made a pact with himself to postulate a Created Universe on even-numbered days, a tail-swallowing eternal-and-uncreated Universe on odd-numbered days--since each hypothesis, while equally paradoxical, neatly avoided the paradoxes of the other--with, of course, a day off each year for sheer solipsist debauchery. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#hypotheses #indecision #paradoxes #solipsism #the-universe

Never judge someone by their relatives. ↗

— Charles Martin

#family #past-history #relationships #family

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions. ↗

— Sam Rayburn

#critics #decisions #deliberations #many #mistake

Death stalked toward us on padded feet.        And it was not alone. ↗

— Melika Dannese Lux

#death #hybrid-vampires #leonora-bianchetti #showdown #vladec-salei