Compagno Emily Quotes & Sayings

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. — Jane Porter

George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us we'd make one marvelous man. He asks nothing better than to be in my company or that of my wicked, divine friends, and I'm vastly tickled by the compliment. He's virgin, about eight foot tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge — John Le Carre

I look at every book as a self-help book. — Marc Maron

I don't mean you should despise people for being weak, if it's a kind of weakness they can't help. But when they're weak on purpose, it's another thing. When they don't even try. When they let people hurt them and don't fight back. It's gross. It's letting down the whole human race. — Mary Gaitskill

So what are we, then?" I asked. "When someone asks who I am, what am I supposed to say?"
"You say, 'Hi, I'm Liv, Dean's very hot and sexy lady.'" I couldn't smother a giggle. "Seriously."
"Paramour?"
"No."
"Cuddle bunny?"
"God, no."
"Valentine? Sweetheart? Girlfriend?"
"Girlfriend." I rested my forehead against his chest. "I guess." "Not the best word, but it'll do in public." He kissed my
temple. "In private, you can just be my beauty. — Nina Lane

As a federal agent, I want you to know I'm disgusted by your lack of respect for the law."
"But you're impressed too," Henry said without turning around. "You're disguspressed. — Lisa Henry

People make mistakes. People do things they never meant to do. — Sue Grafton

Love sometimes makes people ruthless in a way that not even hatred can. — Francesca Marciano

Them till the very last moment, and then what did I do but protect the family from — Philippa Gregory

Failure is the school of greatness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Throw away the rule book and create your own. — Sandra Bellamy

The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh. — Lord Byron

Perhaps farewells create new territories, or they send us back to the only territory that truly belongs to us, that of solitude. — Andres Neuman