Damerel Quotes & Sayings

Professor Rumfoord said frightful things about Billy within Billy's hearing, confident that Billy no longer had any brain at all. "Why don't they let him die?" he asked Lily. "I don't know," she said. "That's not a human being anymore. Doctors are for human beings. — Kurt Vonnegut

Scaring people is a dirty job, but somebody has to do it. — Stephen King

Come away, my dear brethren, fly, fly, fly for your lives to Jesus Christ; fly to a bleeding God, fly to a throne of grace; and beg of God to break your heart; beg of God to convince you of your actual sins; beg of God to convince you of your original sin; beg of God to convince you of your self-righteousness; beg of God to give you faith, and to enable you to close with Jesus Christ. — George Whitefield

This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event; for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage. — Jacques Pepin

And hear across the moan of many seas
The whisper and the laughter of my brook. — Helen Hay Whitney

Humans were so ignorant, taking for granted what they received from each other, never knowing the energy they passed between themselves. — Kim Harrison

At forty feet, the sky is entirely black, but now starlight bleeds faintly down into the forest from between rushing gray clouds. — Ned Hayes

People have always told me I look young for my age ... and I think it's because I've always taken care of myself. — Ian Ziering

In all of this she was only partially successful, for although Nurse knew that once Miss Venetia had made up her mind she was powerless to prevent her doing whatever she liked, and was obliged to admit some faint resemblance in Damerel to the Good Samaritan, she persisted in referring to him as The Ungodly, and in ascribing his charitable behaviour to some obscure but evil motive. She — Georgette Heyer

She'd done better than most; it would take the Empire a whole battle station to end her. — Alexander Freed

I don't know what you may have seen fit to tell her, Venetia, but so far as I understand it you could think of nothing better to do than to beguile her with some farrago about wishing Damerel to strew rose-leaves for you to walk on!"
Damerel, who had resumed his seat, had been staring moodily into the fire, but at these words he looked up quickly. "Rose-leaves?" His eyes went to Venetia's face, wickedly quizzing her. "But my dear girl, at this season?"
"Be quiet, you wretch!" she said, blushing. — Georgette Heyer

If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion
and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas. — Alain De Botton

I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges. — David Talbot

This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister! — Georgette Heyer

Negative mindset, negative lifestyle — Lailah Gifty Akita

A man of peace is guided by peace, but when that peace is threatened, he has a choice to either kneel down and die silently as it falls into chaos, or fight for it and not look back. ~ Ryan Mark, Author — Ryan Mark

This is what we're going to do. I asked God for wisdom, and this is the answer I got. — Ben Carson

A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role that is understood by other members. — Meredith Belbin