For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Alexander Hamilton, attributed,

The narrower the mind, the broader the statement.

Ted Cook

The truth of the story lies in the details.

Paul Auster

The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

William Shakespeare

The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address, That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Caesar seems to have omitted his conjunction to speed things up; he is emphasizing how quickly the conquest of a place follows from its being sighted by a great and ambitious general. Lincoln's omission is more subtle

Arthur Quinn, Figures of Speech,

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature.

David Duchovny

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

Sun Tzu

God has no religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

Gloria Estefan

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

Carl Sagan

Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.

James Buchan

Each one of us comes out of our mother's body crying, with or without exceptions. But we are not aware of it. Are you? Do you remember that you cried the very first time you come out of your mother's body? If not, then why are you crying now?

Santosh Kalwar