Caressd Quotes & Sayings

For the creation of the mechanicals was a seismic event, an earth-rending convulsion that left nothing untouched: palaces, thrones, and empires, yes, but also the way men and women thought about themselves and their relationship to the world, to God, even their own bodies. — Ian Tregillis

stay his arm. "Dalton, don't! It's bad luck to kill a raven!" Her intervention, and the bird unexpectedly ducking, caused him to miss an easy kill. — Terry Goodkind

No prophet or apostle has lived a celibate life is what I'd like to tell her. No one who's ever told me celibacy is a viable option has ever been celibate. They don't even use the word. They say 'abstinent,' which implies there will be an end. They don't consider what my life will be like, if I never marry. Which is likely, given who I am, and the ways I'm different. People stand at the pulpit, or they come to my house, and tell me not to need what every human needs. Afterward, they go home and undress. They lie down next to the person they love most, or once did. — Nicole Hardy

I'd be counting calories in my head while having conversations and doing crosswords. — Justine Bateman

We've ghosts enough between us, Sassenach. If the evils of the past canna hinder us-neither then shall any fears of the future. We must just must put things behind us and get on. Aye? — Diana Gabaldon

As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people. — Phyllis Smith

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence. — Adam Smith

Most people live somewhere on the spectrum of anxiety and depression. — Harold Ramis

An Organisation That Does Not Invest In Itself, Has No Future. — Strive Masiyiwa

What a scream of agony by torture lengthened out that lute sent forth! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

She shrieked. "Nora! What happened to the banister!"
Good thing she hadn't seen her bedroom yet. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Both of us were spared, in body at least, by the stone walls of our different imprisonments, and altered in spirit, in ways we're still struggling to understand. — Barbara Kingsolver