1920 The Roaring Decade In Shanghai Quotes & Sayings

Marianne had sharp, cold eyes and she was spiteful but her father loved her. — Angela Carter

Ideas and creeds are represented as unheeding stones as the ends of human longing. — Justin Cartwright

Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other. — Ruby Dee

Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. — Charles Evans Hughes

Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness - everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being (195). — Jack Kerouac

Read everything. Write all the time. And if you can do anything else that gives you equal pleasure and allows you to sleep soundly at night, do that instead. The writing life is an odd one, to say the least. — Alice McDermott

Cute. I think I would prefer to be stabbed in the eye rather than be called cute. — Ilona Andrews

Playing against better competition makes you better and more focused, so you can do what you have to, to win. — Karch Kiraly

Do we call the star lost that is hidden / In the great light of morn? — Phoebe Cary

What an awful thing life is, isn't it? It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless. — Gustave Flaubert

All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested ... — Pope Urban II

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing. — Sally Ride