Dagni Brooks Quotes & Sayings

These were true things, Laura knew, but they were only part of the truth which was something less orderly than Kate made it sound. Some parts of the full, disorderly truth were lodged in Kate and Laura like splinters of corroding steel. Their feelings had grown around the sharp, wounding edges which didn't hurt anymore but were still there, fossils of pain laid down in the mixed-up strata of memory. — Margaret Mahy

A stronghold is a mind-set impregnated with hopelessness that causes the believer to accept as unchangeable something that he/she knows is contrary to the will of God. P. 24 — Ty Adams

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves. — V.S. Naipaul

I am driven to observe of the ultra-Darwinists the following features as symptomatic. First, to my eyes, is their almost unbelievable self-assurance, their breezy self-confidence. — Simon Conway Morris

He is incredibly handsome. You never realized before how beautiful evil could be. — Teresa Lo

I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff. — Tom Wopat

FDR once said he was like a cat, that he would pounce and then relax. That's much harder to do in the 24-hour cable world, because it's almost like the press demands of you to be saying something or doing something every day. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. — Jonathan Coe

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything. — Benjamin Disraeli

I figured since I'd arrived in Crazytown, I may as well take off my coat and stay a while. — Robyn Peterman

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods. — Neil Postman

But the Danzig unreleased stuff will be either a single or a double CD. — Glenn Danzig

A sub-division's predictable patterns, rigid lines, and ordered structure might feel calming. Normally, they feel segregating and stifling, but for once, I'm scared of this infinite disorder and I'm afraid I might get lost in this place where anything is possible. — Blair Mastbaum

There's a limit to the power of a spring, no matter how tightly one winds it.'
'Oh, yes. Yes. And you hope that if you wind a spring one way, all its energies will unwind the other way. And sometimes you have to wind the spring as tight as it will go,' said Vetinari, 'and pray it doesn't break.'
His expression changed.
'Oh dear,' he said. He didn't thump the wall. I may have gone too far. — Terry Pratchett