Borlaug Institute Quotes & Sayings

Oh hell.
"Sounds good to me," Ren said.
Oh - oh hell to the no.
I took a step back, because I was really afraid I might turn into a rabid squirrel. "No can do."
Ren looked at me sharply.
"You don't have a say in this, Ivy. Let that sink in for a second before you continue with whatever you're about to say," David replied calmly.
My hands curled into fists.
"Are you letting that sink in?" he asked.
Man, it was so sinking in. David was giving me a direct command, which meant if I refused it, I was in breach of the Order. And that meant I'd get a formal write-up. You only got three before you were kicked out, stripped of your tattoo, and even your wards. They were hardcore like that. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are. — Zachary Quinto

Rhys absorbed that with chagrin. "No one has ever accused me of being a romantic," he said ruefully.
"If you were, how would you propose?"
He thought for a moment. "I would begin by teaching you a Welsh word. Hiraeth There's no equivalent in English."
"Hiraeth," she repeated, trying to pronounce it with a tapped R, as he had.
"Aye. It's a longing for something that was lost, or never existed. You feel it for a person or a place, or a time in your life ... it's a sadness of the soul. Hiraeth calls to a Welshman even when he's closest to happiness, reminding him that he's incomplete."
Her brow knit with concern. "Do you feel that way?"
"Since the day I was born." He looked down into her small, lovely face. "But not when I'm with you. That's why I want to marry you. — Lisa Kleypas

I'm going to put a diamond on you the size of a lighthouse beacon. There won't be a man in this city who doesn't know you're married. — Kristen Painter

The laughing, snuggling heap on the ground was her baseline. — Becky Chambers

GOD BURNED ALIVE ONLY DEVILS NOW. — Joe Hill

The trouble with being patient is that eventually you get tired of it. — Lemony Snicket

While technical knowledge is useful, it is only a small part of a true master's brilliance. — Bryant McGill

It's so beautiful here, I don't want to think about everything dying. — George R R Martin

In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them. — Alice Walker

Unbelief puts our circumstances between us and God; faith puts God between us and our circumstances. — Tracie Miles

She wanted happily ever after more than he could possibly know. She wanted forever. Problem was, she just wasn't sure she believed in it anymore. It was why she clung to her fiction so much. She immersed herself in books because there she could be anyone and it was easy to believe in love and happily ever after — Maya Banks

Usually we hate things or people with which we have some emotional involvement. — Harriette Simpson Arnow