51ielts Quotes & Sayings

A pair of workman's brogans encased my feet, and for trousers I was furnished with a pair of pale blue, washed-out overalls, one leg of which was fully ten inches shorter than the other. The abbreviated leg looked as though the devil had there clutched for the Cockney's soul and missed the shadow for the substance. — Jack London

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. — Sivananda Saraswati

You're mine, damn ye, Claire Fraser! Mine, and I wilna share ye, with a man or a memory, or anything whatever, so long as both shall live. — Diana Gabaldon

They're called shortcuts for a reason. The shorter they are, the more they usually cut. Nothing is without price. — Karen Marie Moning

You are greater than you know. — Mother Teresa

To achieve great success in literature you must have a certain coarseness in your composition... Really to move and influence men you must have complete understanding, and you can only get that if you have in you something of the common clay of humanity. — W. Somerset Maugham

I hope someday she meets just the right man and has babies - a whole passel of babies, more than I could have - so she understands how it kills me now that she won't let me hug her when she's in obvious distress. (The Life You've Imagined) — Kristina Riggle

There were no other cars on the road. Just the sound of the wind, and the motor idling, and through his open window, the faint clicking sounds of Roger making another mix. I closed my eyes and let the wind whip my hair around my face, letting out a breath I hadn't known I'd been holding. — Morgan Matson

I love is a door girls slam in their fathers' faces. — Nick Joaquin

How can one dive into the intricate mystery of man when One doesn't see where One is located — Saraha

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through. — Ilya Ehrenburg

I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months. — Jack Nance

You know someone is mad when they cease caring about the retention of their bodily fluids. — Andersen Prunty

I'm a pretty boring guy. Compared to Ashton Kutcher, I live a really boring existence. — Denis Leary