Compromettre Quotes & Sayings

If a marriage is valued at ten thousand, surely I might have a waltz for three hundred."
Her fingers clenched into very determined-looking fists. "So you know about the debt."
He nodded. "If I'd known the prize, I might have wagered a larger sum against your brother."
"I am not for sale."
Clearly he could argue with that, but from the abrupt horror in her grass green eyes, she'd realized that at the same moment she'd spoken. 'Horror.' He'd been forced into things he didn't relish by the lure of funds- or of having them cut off- but the blunt had been the reward for compliance. What was her reward? Marriage to Cosgrove? — Suzanne Enoch

I don't think that crazy should have a negative connotation - it just means that you're fun. I think that crazy is just a term that boring people use to describe fun people. — Jenny Mollen

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God. — John Shelby Spong

For I know the plans I have for you... Jeremiah 29:11 — Jeremiah

When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can. — Stan Smith

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca The Younger

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so. — Terry Brooks

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization. — John Banville

I see story ideas. All the time. They're everywhere. Just walking around like normal ideas. They don't know they're stories. — Jennifer Brozek

In order to have constant success and prosperity it is very important to be focused not on the success itself but on Jesus Christ — Sunday Adelaja

But squeezing her eyes tighter, she concentrated not on her fear but on his expression . . . his eyes . . . his lips . . . his dark brows and the way his dark hair hung over his forehead. She remembered his voice, the words he had spoken to her, and her stomach did that strange flip it often did when she thought about the margrave. Magdalen — Melanie Dickerson

Lastly, it should be noted that the nostalgia which the reading public maintains for my former Baker Street address does not exist in me. I no longer crave the bustle of London streets, nor do I miss navigating the tangled mires created by the criminally disposed. — Mitch Cullin

The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in. — Sharon Creech