Analects Sparknotes Quotes & Sayings

I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

God is another way of talking about the power to break things, that's all. When you mean to break a goblet or a bone, well, just do it and be done. But when the things to be broken get big enough you have to start talking about God. — Catherynne M Valente

Life is our dictionary — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He brightened. "Are you Irish then?"
"My last name is McNally. I'm as Irish as Paddy's pig. — Ashlyn Chase

Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration. — David Axelrod

Hunt seemed similarly indifferent to the show, his head inclined toward hers, his gaze
locked on her face. Though his breathing remained soft and disciplined, it seemed to her that its rhythm
had changed ever so slightly.
Annabelle moistened her dry lips. "You ... you mustn't stare at me like that."
Soft as the murmur was, he caught it. "With you here, nothing else is worth looking at. — Lisa Kleypas

In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play. — Bobby Jones

They had once sworn to tell each other everything, absolutely everything, and after they had done that, after they had tested how much truth the other could tolerate, their stories had become the walls and the roof that held their home together. — Jo Nesbo

I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it. — Patti Smith

We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history
even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it? — Julian Barnes

I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace. — Nikki Rowe