Condie Cottage Quotes & Sayings

The dead and the unborn make their presence known through traditions, institutions, and laws. — Roger Scruton

He looked into the hole, and like any hole it said, Jump. — Susan Sontag

You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig. You've got to make a distinction. — Fred Hampton

After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee. — Elizabeth Bowen

How can I demonstrate [ ... ] that I have glimpsed somebody's future recollection? — Vladimir Nabokov

So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she prays constantly, and relaxes not her efforts in our behalf. — Alphonsus Liguori

O mother, mother!
What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope,
The gods look down, and this unnatural scene
They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O!
You have won a happy victory to Rome;
But, for your son,--believe it, O, believe it,
Most dangerously you have with him prevail'd,
If not most mortal to him. — William Shakespeare

The outstanding examples are still Cardozo's Nature of the Judicial Process18 — Richard A. Posner

Live passionate life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I held his hand tighter and still squeezing I leant across and kissed his lips, the lips that apologised for his huff as they lovingly connected with mine, and I strained to keep at least one eye on the road. — Nicci Greene

When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea. — Joss Whedon

Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense) exposure of one mind to another. — Harold Brodkey

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration. — Frank Auerbach

Beauty knows no time', he said softly, rising, and kissing her hand. — Jude Deveraux