Craylees Quotes & Sayings

What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face? — Horace

The world as it exists is a very, very dangerous place. — Gavriel Savit

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity. — George Santayana

It was too late for Honor, who had managed to introduce her forehead to the wooden support beam that had risen in front of her. — Cat Amesbury

I once recommended [in a San Francisco Chronicle column] that a third arm - a plastic arm - be sewn at the base of the spine so that people could have a tripod to sit on while waiting in line, and it was taken seriously. — Alan Abel

America's trying to do the best for its veterans. — R. Lee Ermey

Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else's success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others. — Sharon Salzberg

Absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely. — Gertrude Himmelfarb

For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves, even like Love, its deep heart is full, It desires what it has not, the beautiful. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Levi's eyebrows were pornographic — Rainbow Rowell

Hamet, Seid, and Abdallah were stung by the irony that on the wild desert, where people had virtually nothing, they shared freely, but here, where resources were comparatively abundant, no one would offer them so much as a drink. — Dean King

War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet. — Myles Standish

One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of. — Fatema Mernissi

Don't look at me like that, Augusta." He stood to pull his shirt over his head. "I don't deserve it. No mortal could deserve such an expression. — Grace Burrowes

All who love are conspirators. — George Weinberg