Billeting Quotes & Sayings

It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences — Gianfranco Fini

In the last year I have come to understand the traitorous nature of skin. We cannot live without this barrier between our beating hearts and the outside world, yet it is the most fragile of things, as well as the most deceptive. — Sarah Fine

More Fair:
They left me
with your shadow,
saying things like
Life is not fair
& I believed them
for a long time.
But today,
I remembered
the way you laughed
& the heat
of your hand
in mine
& I knew that
life is more fair
than we can
ever imagine
if
we are there to live it — Brian Andreas

One should marry when one stops having a good time and settle down. — Apurva Sharma

When we understand who we are, and how our realities work, we can choose more consciously to shape our lives in an optimal way.
Knowledge of oneself is the very key to a happy life. Happiness is not something outside of our own consciousness that needs to be earned, and achieved. It is a choice that needs to be supported by positive actions. It is not enough to say that we want to be happy. Our desire of happiness, love and peace, needs to be supported by our state of being. — Raphael Zernoff

At 1:00 a.m., they were in the Welsh pub again, having drinks and talking opera and football. — John Grisham

Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility. — Mary McCarthy

Stop your ignorance! Seek for wisdom and give understanding a way! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

God's will can go fuck itself. And so can you. — Jason Aaron

[1768] The Billeting Act, which required the colonists to lodge and feed the British troops quartered among them, added fuel to the flames. In 1768 the New York legislature refused to comply, and Parliament suspended its legislative functions. — E. Benjamin Andrews

Torture. I totally get it, like, I get that she died or whatever. — John Green

To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble. — Ray Dalio

When I was a kid, a policeman was someone you looked up to and respected. — Alan Sugar

The thing about stone is you don't get to the heart of it. It stares back into you, its secret intact and inviolable. — Barney Norris

He is so beautiful, she thought, aching from the sadness that she saw in his eyes. In the late-afternoon sunlight, those eyes were almost green. She took his face in her hands and pulled him to her, claiming the kiss she had so desperately wanted the day before but had forgotten in the heat of the moment. She closed her eyes and felt him respond to her mouth, his tongue seeking hers. — Shira Anthony