Best Jonas Blane Quotes & Sayings

We live in an age of progress," announced Professor Wogglebug, pompously. "It is easier to swallow knowledge than to acquire it laboriously from books. Is it not so, my friends?" "Some — L. Frank Baum

More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective. — Mark Billingham

Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty. — William Ellery Channing

Shower sex isn't the same when you have a saran-wrapped cast on your good arm. But I powered through it because I'm a team-fucking-player. — J. Sterling

Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God. — Leland Ryken

Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard. — Steven Morrissey

True nirvana will come when we enlighten the world of awareness and higher consciousness. — Debasish Mridha

It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available. — Vance Havner

On Seeing the 100 Percent Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning by Haruki Murakami. — Neil Strauss

Amanda was probably in her mid-fifties, a small woman, maybe five-three on a good day. Her attitude filled the room, and she walked with a swagger that rivaled a bullfighter's. She wore a simple diamond ring on her wedding finger, though Will knew she wasn't currently married. She had no children, or perhaps she had eaten them when they were young. — Karin Slaughter

For all his clever ideas, Maven has nothing to say to this. He just stares, his breath coming in tiny, scared puffs. I know the look on his face; I wear it every time I'm forced to say good-bye to someone.
"It's too bad we didn't stay longer," I murmur, looking out at the river. "I would have liked to die close to home."
Another breeze sends a curtain of my hair across my face but Maven brushes it away and pulls me close with startling ferocity.
Oh.
His kiss is not at all like his brother's. Maven is more desperate, surprising himself as much as me. He knows I'm sinking fast, a stone dropping through the river. And he wants to drown with me.
"I will fix this," he murmurs against my lips. I have never seen his eyes so bright and sharp. "I won't let them hurt you. You have my word. — Victoria Aveyard

When I took Psychology 101, the professor taught us about random reinforcement. Put three
groups of rats in three separate cages, each equipped with a bar. The first group of rats got a
pellet every time they pressed the bar. The second group never got pellets, no matter how often
they pressed. And the third group got pellets just once in a while.
The first group, the professor said,
eventually gets bored with the guaranteed reward and the rats who never get treats give up, too.
But the random rats will press on that bar forever, hoping each time they press that this time the magic will happen,
that this time they'll get lucky. It was at that moment in class that I realized that I had become my father's rat. — Jennifer Weiner

My intent is to be generous of spirit and live with total integrity every day of my life. — Deepak Chopra