Deontic And Epistemic Modality Quotes & Sayings

Going home does not come naturally to me. If my father's medium was silence, mine had tended to be escape. But there's no future in escape because the world is round. So the faster you run away, the faster you end up, right back where you started, face to face with whatever you were running from in the first place. Your worst fears, they're always the most patient. They'll wait up for you. That's what makes them the worst. — Holly Hughes

The town could start boring him any time now. — Lorrie Farrelly

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed. — Richard Paul Evans

A woman should wear perfume wherever she wants to be kissed. — Coco Chanel

In other words, despite the dogged liberal assumption - again, coming from Smith's legacy - that the existence of states and markets are somehow opposed, the historical record implies that exactly the opposite is the case. Stateless societies tend also to be without markets. — David Graeber

People who get comfortable in their spirit miss what they were created for. They were created to magnify the glory of the world. — Cory Booker

Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Some people have asked me where I find the large quantity of prepositions that I need to keep my Bookworms fit and well. The answer is, of course, that I use omitted prepositions, of which, when mixed with dropped definite articles, make a nourishing food. There are a superabundance of these in the English language — Jasper Fforde

Wroth, darling," she purred, smiling so sweetly. "I can't wait for the next time I get to put my mouth on you." In an instant the smile faded and she snapped her teeth and yanked her head back as if she was chewing something free. — Kresley Cole

I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible. — Claire Danes

The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair. — Jonah Goldberg

If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes have a loathing for the furious cravings that give me no peace except when I am working. — Julien Green

We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing. — Dalai Lama XIV

Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it. — Claude Lelouch