Derderian Fresno Quotes & Sayings

Well," said Ronan, "I hope he likes it. I've pulled a muscle."
Gansey scoffed, "Doing what? You were standing watch."
"Opening my hood. — Maggie Stiefvater

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. — Chuck Palahniuk

How did Kirchmann understand the worthlessness of jurisprudence ? The answer lies in the aphorism: "Three revisions by the legislator and whole libraries became wastepaper." With a sharp alteration this answer became a slogan:"A stroke of the legislator's pen and whole libraries became wastepaper." Another aphorism in the same vein made the point even more brusquely and less politely: "Positive law turns the jurist into a worm in rotten wood." Kirchmann meant that jurisprudence could never catch up with legislation. Thus our predicament becomes immediately obvious. What remains of a science reduced to annotating and interpreting constantly changing regulations issued by state agencies presumed to be in the best position to know and articulate their true intent? — Carl Schmitt

Why is it that when someone says "trust me", I always feel less inclined to do so? — Gemma Halliday

As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity. — Iris Murdoch

There is so much I want to do in women's golf, and I'm living my dream. — Paula Creamer

Instantly a thick blackness seemed to enfold her and silence as of a dead world settled down upon her. Drowsy as she was she could not close her eyes nor refrain from listening. Darkness and silence were tangible things. She felt them. And they seemed suddenly potent with magic charm to still the tumult of her, to sooth and rest, to create thought she had never thought before. Rest was more than selfish indulgence. Loneliness was necessary to gain conciseness of the soul. — Zane Grey

Death's favorites don't die. — Holly Black

But sometimes you don't say the word because you think a thing is ongoing when actually it is already over. The — Rachel Joyce

A smile is the best makeup that can change your looks and your heart. — Debasish Mridha