718 Credit Quotes & Sayings

There was soot and orphans everywhere, and gaslit cobbled streets full of fog and sinister gentlemen out for a night of illicit murder. It was a strict and unforgiving society; looking at a piano, eating too much butter, dancing with elan
the sour-faced Queen Victoria forbade all these things. And, it was also raining in the London of themdays
dirty grey slabs of rain that left everywhere shining and slippery. — Gideon Defoe

The time for blithely asserting that sleeping with whomever you want however you want is going to jam its machinery is long past. — Maggie Nelson

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin. — William Gurnall

Jesus was a crackpot. — Rajneesh

The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought. — Albert Pike

Sometimes, it is easier to leave things as they are, rather than to fight, go against the flow. — Renita D'Silva

Some are professors and others are possessors. — Lawrence Kennedy

My mother still made dinner. She cooked out of habit, as part of her routine, working mechanically.
But when I saw the piles of dust in the corners, it made me want to cry. — Otsuichi

...a standing ovation from five-year-olds is not to be sniffed at. — Jasper Fforde

I want to live as long as I can do good; but not an hour longer than I can live in fellowship with the Holy Spirit, with my Father in heaven, my Savior, and with the faithful Latter-day Saints. To live any longer than this would be torment and misery to me. When my work is done I am ready to go; but I want to do what is required of me. — Wilford Woodruff