Belittered Quotes & Sayings

He would return in half an hour - or in less. He walked away and I sat there alone, conscious, on the dark dismantled simplified scene, in the deep silence that rests on American towns during the hot season - there was now and then a far cry or a plash in the water, and at intervals the tinkle of the bells of the horse-cars on the long bridge, slow in the suffocating night - of the strange influence, half-sweet, half-sad, that abides in houses uninhabited or about to become so, in places muffled and bereaved, where the unheeded sofas and patient belittered tables seem (like the disconcerted dogs, to whom everything is alike sinister) to recognise the eve of a journey. — Henry James

Blackthorn? Please. Shut. Up. I grab the collar of his jacket and pull him into me, answering every last protest with a kiss- a real one, deep and intentional. — Sarah Ockler

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke. — Ronald Reagan

Tolerance means weakness," Eicke wrote in the introduction to his rules. "In the light of this conception, punishment will be mercilessly handed out whenever the interests of the fatherland warrant it. — Erik Larson

When I was a kid at four years old, that's when I started amateur wrestling with my dad and family. And when that's instilled in you, it never goes away. — Dwayne Johnson

They bear their sorrow in the strength of him who bears them up, who bore the whole suffering of the world upon the cross. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel. — Ted Turner

If we are constantly striving to improve and innovate, then where will the old fit in this new order? — Daniel Armiss