Appellations Def Quotes & Sayings

Was a sandcastle, beautiful but temporary. So why did you give yourself to him in this way, Sofia? — Bella Forrest

I DON'T HOLD WITH CRUELTY TO CATS. — Terry Pratchett

As the old saying goes, a man with one watch always knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never sure. — Daniel J. Levitin

Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life. — Willa Cather

Die happy-I will, F'nor cried, cutting more fruit. — Anne McCaffrey

Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time. — Norman Schwarzkopf

All you have to decide, as they say, is what you do with the time given. — Kameron Hurley

Think of that person you knew when you were a kid, who you always thought you could have loved completely and forever.Well, you could have. It's the truth, and it's the saddest and simplest thing. There isn't just one person for each of us in the world. There aren't many, but there are always a few people we could have made it with, that maybe we still want to make it with, that press themselves so close to our hearts they leave scars, and then slip through our fingers and disappear from our lives. And it doesn't make a difference if you're thirteen or ninety- eight because some things you feel are real, no matter when. — Abigail Tarttelin

Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke. — David Rees

You must have a theory," Bobby said. "Here it is. The killer has multiple personality disorder." Justine sighed. " And every one of his personalities is psychopathic. — Robert Patterson

Office gossip annoyed him because it always proved better than the truth. — Philip K. Dick

A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it. So the genes that survive tend to be, automatically, those genes that confer on bodies the qualities that assist them to survive. — Richard Dawkins

Once she exclaimed, "But I always thought that sorceresses were evil!"
"What do you mean 'evil'?"
Lynet has never considered the question. "You know," she said, after a moment, "unfriendly to people."
"People!" repeated Morgana derisively. "As if humans were all that mattered. Just once I'd like to see people judged by how friendly they are to sorceresses. — Gerald Morris

But as always, the distance between them gave way to a need to be closer. — Galt Niederhoffer