Brooklets Quotes & Sayings

now?" Theon seldom prayed at all, but that was not something you confessed — George R R Martin

Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me? — Confucius

But never had come first. — Rachel Simon

It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not. — Giles Fraser

Lest too light winning make the prize light. — William Shakespeare

Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was. — William Golding

The manner in which we live, and that in which we ought to live, are things so wide asunder, that he who quits the one to betake himself to the other is more likely to destroy than to save himself; since any one who would act up to a perfect standard of goodness in everything, must be ruined among so many who are not good. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places. — George Eliot

We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of the story to judge our souls. — Sarah McCoy

In recent weeks, I have heard former Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier on Fox News twice asserting, quite offhandedly, that President George W. Bush 'lied us into war in Iraq.' — Laurence Silberman

That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow. — Thomas Brooks