Afoul Define Quotes & Sayings

evil is the nature of mankind. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

And Mamma was still asleep. I called it the sleeping sickness because coma is the ugliest word in the entire universe. If I could, I'd erase it from the dictionary, but Old Webster would probably hunt me down. — Kimberley Griffiths Little

I hope I leave this world gracefully, like a pilgrim slips from the back of his donkey at the end of a long ride, like a traveler disembarks from an airplane that has carried him across a great ocean. — Kim Wright

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love. — Elisabeth Rohm

I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves — Edgar Allan Poe

But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that one disbelieved in prayer; one never lost all one's belief in magic. It was that she preferred to plan, it was fairer, it wasn't loading the dice. — Graham Greene

I felt and feel no solidarity with people who think their salvation makes them more worthy than others. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say?
Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up? — Gary D. Schmidt

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance! — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

If I talk about my father's funeral, as I did when I was promoting the last novel, 'Being Dead,' I'm not going to tell any lies, but there are certain things I'm not going to tell you, and I'm certainly not going to tell my grief. — Jim Crace

Standing there in that glittering dress and wielding flame like some sort of avenging goddess. — Richelle Mead

I had good legs, and I loved showing them off. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Total paranoia is just total awareness. — Charles Manson

An optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise. — Milan Kundera

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that. — Valentina Tereshkova