Ask Embla Quotes & Sayings

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Father and daughter stand before the ship. She looks like a naval vessel. The red star glitters on the funnel. I look immediately at the lettering Proleterka. Blackened, patches of rust, forgotten. Sovereign lettering. The dusk is falling. The ship is large, she hides the sun that is about to sink into the water. She is darkness, pitch and mystery. A privateer built like a fortress, she has survived stormy weather and shipwreck. We go up the gangplank. The officers are waiting for us. We are the last. — Fleur Jaeggy

He was dead. He just didn't know it yet. — Christine Feehan

when God opens his mouth to us, he should not find our hearts closed and shut firmly against him. _ — John Calvin

Then you will simply have to see for yourself. Touch me, lass. Feel my ... sock." His silver gaze sizzled with challenge, as he unzipped his zipper.
Uh-uh." She shook her head for added emphasis.
Then find me a pair of trews that doona threaten to sever my manparts. — Karen Marie Moning

His own wand trembled in his hand, and he almost welcomed the oncoming oblivion, the promise of nothing, of no feeling. — J.K. Rowling

Until we part at death, you are tied to me by my soul.--Shinigami Lovers — Ryou Yuuki

I never thought that freedom would feel so much like grief. — Rosamund Hodge

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions. — Madeleine L'Engle

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Innovation means replacing the best practices of today with those of tomorrow. — Paul Sloane

The view, as I have said, is charming; but in the day you must keep the lattice-blinds close shut, or the sun would drive you mad; and when the sun goes down you must shut up all the windows, or the mosquitoes would tempt you to commit suicide. So — Charles Dickens