Quotes & Sayings About December Images

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men. — Robert Dale Owen

She thought human thoughts and stone thoughts. The latter were slow, patchily coloured, textured and extreme, both hot and cold. They did not translate into the English language, or into any other she knew: they were things that accumulated, solidly, knocked against each other, heaped and slipped. — A.S. Byatt

Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply. — Marquis De Sade

I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs. — Stephen Collins

Strange how close the darkness is, even when things seem brightest. Even in the glare of a summer noon, when the sidewalk bakes and iron fences are hot to the touch, the shadows are still with us. They congregate in doorways and porches, and under bridges, and beneath the brims of gentlemen's hats so you cannot see their eyes. There is darkness in our mouths and ears; in our bags and wallets; within the swing of men's jackets and beneath the flare of women's skirts. We carry it around with us, the dark, and its influence stains us deep. — Jonathan Stroud

The difference between now and when I played during my younger days is my drives are shorter and my short game is longer. — Simon Hobday

If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it. — Werner Herzog

I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him. — Tasha Smith

I don't watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the most. Something gets you when you're alone and someone's voice is coming through their work. There's a different quality to it that stays with you a bit more. — Dylan Moran

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage. — Mary J. Blige

British Empire acted as an agency for imposing free markets, the rule of law, investor protection and relatively incorrupt government on roughly a quarter of the world. — Niall Ferguson

But for all the horrors that Reggie had seen, She had also witnessed the wonder of the human spirit fighting back. It wasn't about eradicating fear; it was about overcoming it. And that was something that was so personal a nature that if she had to keep entering Fearscapes one by one, seeking out the souls trapped in hell one by one, then that was what she would do. — Simon Holt

Lambiase is recently divorced. He had married his high school sweetheart, so it took him a long time to realize that she was not, in fact, a sweetheart or a very nice person at all. In arguments, she was fond of calling him stupid and fat. He is not stupid, by the way, though he is neither well read nor well traveled. He is not fat, though he is built like a bulldog - thick-muscled neck, short legs, broad, flat nose. A sturdy American bulldog, not an English one. Lambiase does not miss his wife, though he does miss having somewhere to go after work. — Gabrielle Zevin