Assort Quotes & Sayings

They Said, "what sign can you give us to see, so that we may believe you?" - John 6: 30 - 31

You do not believe although you have seen... - John 6: 36 - 37 — William Peter Blatty

Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard? — Harriet Harman

Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness.
(Page 194.) — Joanne Harris

But mostly they were lies I told; it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to one of those supernatural castles visited by characters in legends: once away, you do not remember, all that is left is the ghostly echo of haunting wonder. — Truman Capote

She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf. — Derek Walcott

For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs. — Colin Powell

The raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest, and the muddy streets are muddiest near that leaden-headed old obstruction, appropriate ornament for the threshold of a leaden-headed old corporation, Temple Bar. And hard by Temple Bar, in Lincoln's Inn Hall, at the very heart of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery. Never can there come fog too thick, never can there come mud and mire too deep, to assort with the groping and floundering condition which this High Court of Chancery, most pestilent of hoary sinners, holds this day in the sight of heaven and earth. On — Charles Dickens

I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal. — Muriel Barbery

Doesn't matter what language you speak or what clothes you wear. Some things don't change. Families. Friends. Lovers. They're the same in every city in every country in every continent of the world. — Annabel Pitcher

Never underestimate the significance of the little things done out of a large heart of love. — Elizabeth George

If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble. — Barbara Brown Taylor

As academia became my identity, my fascination with firefighters became buried and, seemingly, died. — S.A. Tawks

Life was not longer something to endure, but to live. — Hubert Selby Jr.