Daniliner Quotes & Sayings

I mean, the idea that Bar could have sent him off on a Grand Tour. But he wasn't the least bit interested. Why? Why isn't he interested in the world? Because here's the bad news for him: He's in the world now. — Chris Matthews

Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos. — George Peabody

Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom. — Laurence J. Peter

Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as "not black enough." ... Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting. — Bell Hooks

The wine must have eradicated every last atom of common sense I possessed, because I reached up to give him a hug in the same way I would have done with Tom or one of Dane's other friends. A buddy hug. But every nerve from head to toe screamed "Mistake!" as soon as the front of my body met his, adhering like wet cottonwood leaves.
Jack's arms went around me, clasping me against a wall of muscle, and he was so big and warm, and it felt so scary-good that I stiffened all over.
The hot drift of his breath against my cheek made my heartbeat go crazy, and instant arousal filled the space between every thump.
I gasped, ducking away, my face crammed against his shoulder. "Jack ... " I could hardly speak. "I wasn't making a pass at you."
"I know." One hand slid to the back of my head, fingers lacing through the silky-fine locks. Gripping gently, he guided me to look at him. "It's not at all your fault that I'm taking it that way."
-Ella & Jack — Lisa Kleypas

She felt hot liquid anger suddenly cool and harden into something powerful and immovable. — Liane Moriarty

Syn spread his legs wider than a cheap hooker in a Red Roof Inn. "I need it now, Furi. — A.E. Via

In other words, such is he desire which everyone has to exculpate himself by blackening his neighbour. You and I, Belford, have been very kind to the world in furnishing it with many opportunities to gratify its devil. — Samuel Richardson

The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life. — Alexander Pope

I am an offspring of the dead. I am descended from the deceased. I am the progeny of phantoms. My ancestors are the illustrious multitudes of the defunct, grand and innumerable. My lineage is longer than time. My name is written in embalming fluid in the book of death. A noble race is mine. — Thomas Ligotti

He has come that they might reject their works; but this is a thing they cannot suffer, and they reject Him. — Martin Luther

They took a meandering route through the neighborhood, louche and gentrified all at once. — Boris Fishman

The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children — Philip Carr-Gomm

[W]hat I used to respect was not really aristocracy, but a set of personal qualities which aristocracy then developed better than any other system ... a set of qualities, however, whose merit lay only in a psychology of non-calculative, non-competitive disinterestedness, truthfulness, courage, and generosity fostered by good education, minimum economic stress, and assumed position, AND JUST AS ACHIEVABLE THROUGH SOCIALISM AS THROUGH ARISTOCRACY. — H.P. Lovecraft

Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do ... stay in the studio. — Al Jourgensen