16361 Quotes & Sayings

She came to a little wrecked pleasure-steamer, which had become embedded in the mud several summers ago and which no one had bothered to remove. It had been a vulgar, tubby little boat when it used to steam through the water with its handful of holiday-makers, giving shrill whistles at every bend and causing a wash that disturbed the fishermen as they sat peacefully on the banks; but, now it lay sideways in the mud with its gaudy paint all bleached, it was almost beautiful. — Barbara Comyns

You can't be all things to all people. — Michael Porter

They did the best they could. Besides I was hardly a stranger. I had known your grandmother. We were like this. She twined her second and third fingers together as if they might strangle each other. — Gregory Maguire

They jumped on us. They were the aggressor. They had us on our heels from the beginning. — LeBron James

Romantic Egoist
Besides, love is just one among many mysteries that logic alone cannot explain. — Bisco Hatori

In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit. — Charles Buxton

For an animal that must kill to live, it makes sense for the hunt and the kill to be pleasurable. If you don't kill, you don't eat, and if you don't eat, you die. — Rebecca Skloot

That would be a slow and cruel death," said Gebe Meskal quietly. "He may survive a week on such a regime, but so little of a skin is not sufficient water for a man laboring in the desert."

Telemakos said through his teeth, "It is for a child. — Elizabeth Wein

You will always grow through - what you go through. — Tyrese Gibson

You're working-class heroes, even though you don't work. — Adam Carolla

The important thing is not what you may think is precisely right or wrong. What matters is that you choose to have an opinion at all on what is right or wrong. — Jostein Gaarder

I believe in magic. In evil sorceresses who deep down are really beautiful princesses. I believe in immortals who live in a different world than this one, accessible by magical stone wheels. — Morgan Rhodes

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth. — Alexandre Dumas

His throat bulges queerly, as men's throats do: as if inviting the blow that will crush it. — Sarah Waters

Many honours I want not, nor great treasures: they excite the spleen. But it is bad sleeping without a good name and a little treasure. — Friedrich Nietzsche