Close Off Fireplace Quotes & Sayings

She bit her lips, concentrating, wishing he'd go and sit on one of the chairs before the fireplace. Or stand at the window and watch the full moon. Anything but sit there so close she could smell the sandalwood soap he used.
Night had brought a shadow of a beard to his face. He no longer looked every inch the earl, but more a coach robber, someone who would march her out to the glen and kiss her until she fell to her knees.
He would show no mercy to her. Instead, he would make her beg. — Karen Ranney

I don't believe in being interested in a subject just because it's said to be important. I believe in being caught by it somehow or other. — Joseph Campbell

I never did any sports at school. It wasn't until I moved to America, to New York, when I was about 20 that I actually thought that if I wanted to be an actress I might have to start working out. — Rebecca Mader

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning. — Anne Spencer

My aim here is to put a human face - a child's face - on the "collateral damage" of gun violence in America. — Gary Younge

Giant hogweed is considered extremely dangerous because its sap, in combination with ultraviolet light, can burn human skin. Every year, millions are spent digging up plants and destroying them, without any great success. However, hogweed can spread only because the original forested meadows along the banks of rivers and streams no longer exist. If these forests were to return, it would be so dark under the forest canopy that hogweed would disappear. The same goes for Himalayan balsam and Japanese knotweed, which also grow on the riverbanks in the absence of the forests. Trees could solve the problem if people trying to improve things would only allow them to take over. — Peter Wohlleben

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained. — Chuck Palahniuk

If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience? — Sigmund Freud

In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death to immortality, There is no pain of any creature from the beginning to the end of time which was not 'known' at this point and thus transmuted. To know all things in the Word is thus to know all the suffering of the world transfigured by the resurrection, somehow reconciled and atoned in eternal life. It was God's purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things on heaven and things on earth'. — Bede Griffiths

I learned in therapy the word "No" is a complete sentence. — Jaycee Dugard

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition. — Charles Caleb Colton

I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little. — Gina Gershon

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time. — Marie Osmond

Carpe diem. Seize the day. — John Keats

Never refuse an invitation. - told to me by Kurt Vonnegut in 1975 — H. Max Hiller

Our greatest sufferings do not lie in the present, as intuitive representations or immediate feeling, but rather in reason, as abstract concepts, tormenting thoughts. — Arthur Schopenhauer