Aemilia Phillips Quotes & Sayings

As she made her way back to the tiny white van she listened to her own breathing and felt her own heart thumping wildly. She had no idea where she had found the courage, but it had been there, like the water at the bottom of a disused quarry
unfathomably deep. — Alexander McCall Smith

The only rule I have found to have any validity is writing is not to bore yourself. — John Mortimer

The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one. — Toni Morrison

The thread breakes, where it is weakest. — George Herbert

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are. — Claude M. Bristol

Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place. — Maggie Stiefvater

Well, then, Otter, of course I don't like Bundt cake. It has eggs in it. Baby chicken eggs. You don't see chickens standing outside of maternity wards waiting to get our babies to make their Bundt cake, do you? — T.J. Klune

Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised. — Ameen Rihani

Today's events are reminiscent of the Old Testament story of how the Israelites demanded a king over God's objection. They believed that a king would give them peace and security. The results proved otherwise. — Ron Paul

Now the son of a bitch was saying it was a fluke. Cloud nine to complete shit in ten seconds. The guy wasn't just an emotional roller coaster; he was a whole damned amusement park. — S.W. Vaughn

How could you fail to feel uplifted when a voice was telling you at every step that the year, month, day, season, place, even that very moment were blessed? — Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera

I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only - still, I left. — Mihail Drumes

Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism. — Pankaj Mishra