1719 Novel Quotes & Sayings

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

You don't have to compete against the best to be your best. Just compete against your best. — Tony Curl

Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom ... — John Milton

Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck. — Marge Piercy

Mother's Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother's Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict. — Gloria Steinem

It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world. — Tim Weiner

Some Saturday mornings, as soon as the mountains had bottled up the last cheerful sound of Bob and the truck, I, feeling like a cross between a boll weevil and a slut, took a large cup of hot coffee, a hot-water bottle, a cigarette and a magazine and WENT BACK TO BED. Then, from six-thirty until nine or so, I luxuriated in breaking the old mountain tradition that a decent woman is in bed only between the hours of seven pm and four am unless she is in labor or dead. — Betty MacDonald

I mean the whole economy just comes to a grinding halt. Competence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen.Indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing you think about. And the oxygen has been sucked out of the credit markets. — Howard Warren Buffett

In these tough economic times, everybody has to cut back. I am down to three tabs of ecstasy a day. — Chelsea Handler

I don't really live by plans. — Andrea Corr

My strong belief is that God created human beings and therefore he knows about every aspect of the human body. So if I want to fix it, I just need to stay in harmony with Him. — Ben Carson

So from the mould
Scarlet and Gold
Many a Bulb will rise --
Hidden away, cunningly,
From sagacious eyes.

So from Cocoon
Many a Worm
Leap so Highland gay,
Peasants like me --
Peasants like Thee,
Gaze perplexedly! — Emily Dickinson

Today this courtyard was filled with great warriors. What is more? But it was not filled with great men who have the heart to rule a kingdom. Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one's hand. But not every man knows how to lead. — Melina Marchetta