Clennell Safeguarding Quotes & Sayings

He had come to us only three years earlier, but had already won general sympathy, mainly because he "knew how to bring society together." His house was never without guests, and it seemed he would have been unable to live without them. He had to have guests to dinner every day, even if only two, even if only one, but without guests he would not sit down to eat. He gave formal dinners, too, under all sorts of pretexts, sometimes even the most unexpected. The food he served, though not refined, was abundant, the cabbage pies were excellent, and the wines made up in quantity for what they lacked in quality. In the front room stood a billiard table, surrounded by quite decent furnishings; that is, there were even paintings of English racehorses in black frames on the walls, which, as everyone knows, constitute a necessary adornment of any billiard room in a bachelor's house. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes. — Ruth Rendell

If facts are inconvenient, well, damn those who live and work with facts. — David Brin

I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once. — Sarah Dessen

Logan steps in between us. — Addison Moore

There's a lot of disrespect in the major leagues. I believe that the disrespect in the major leagues is at a high rate and is really bad for the gam — Bengie Molina

Book clubs are totally dope - like English class if you were allowed to read only books that you actually like and snack and sip while discussing them. — Sam Maggs

This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. — Herbert Spencer

Christ was the first feminist and because of that I've learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas but, rather, a spiritual experience. — Jane Fonda