Backbench Conservative Quotes & Sayings

I don't have to follow any special diet or count calories. I try to eat healthily and before a match I load up on pasta and salads. But I pretty much do what I want. — Maria Sharapova

Hey Charlotte," Julianne yelled. "Hell must have frozen over!" And then in a quieter voice she added, "Charlotte was hoping it would."
"What?" Colton asked.
I sprinted the rest of the way to the door. As I rounded the corner I saw both Wesley and Colton in the entryway. Julianne stood in front of them transfixed, staring up at Colton with adoring eyes.
"Julianne, it's time for you to go to your room," I said. "Right now."
"Do you really know the devil?" she asked Colton. "Have you ever been to hell?"
"Sometimes I think I have," he answered, glaring at me. — Janette Rallison

When you become aggressive in arguments, you force the other person to become defensive which means they'll either get ready to fight you or ready to flee from you. — Sam Owen

Let's face it: every campus has its share of students who can't quite comprehend that extreme political correctness is often born of the same intolerance and anti-intellectualism as standard-issue bigotry. — Meghan Daum

It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm. — Jasmine Guinness

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect. — George Washington

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority. — Millard Fuller

My middle finger twitched, but I kept it under wraps and with its brothers and sisters. We — Mariana Zapata

The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing. — Erle Stanley Gardner

I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world. — Al Jardine

Lord, you are God! You made us. Who better to know how to fix us when we've gone wrong? who better to set us to rights again? Who better to love us through the fire and refine us into something beautiful and useful despite our wrongs? — Francine Rivers

Would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

An old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her. — Fanny Burney