Dibdin Bibliomania Quotes & Sayings

Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep. — E. M. Forster

He's rougher than he's ever been, his anger and hurt driving them further in their pleasure. — Vivian Winslow

In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour. — Emma Donoghue

If you go in in the morning and have had a rough night, dunking your face in ice water is really good. — Gwyneth Paltrow

And so we see the paradox that evolution has handed us. If man is the only animal whose consciousness of self gives him an unusual dignity in the animal kingdom, he also pays a tragic price for it. The fact that the child has to identify -first- means that his very first identity is a social product. His habitation of his own body is built from the outside in; not from the inside out. He doesn't unfold into the world, the world unfolds into him. As the child responds to the vocal symbols learned from his object, he often gives the pathetic impression of being a true social puppet, jerked by alien symbols and sounds. What sensitive parent does not have his satisfaction tinged with sadness as the child repeats with such vital earnestness the little symbols that are taught him? — Ernest Becker

He suddenly pulled up, staring down at her for several moments, his eyes fierce and serious. "It means you belong to me. No other. Not your brother your father your mother your uncle. Not even Master. Me. Only me. Always and forever. — Lucian Bane

Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy. — Sheryl Sandberg

It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests show that drinking water is polluted, it can be hard to pinpoint the source of the contamination. — Charles Duhigg

My Dad wanted me to be able to play with him and my brothers. I was the only girl! — Susan Davis

Still in my mind the old days scenario is playing

OVER AND OVER — Deyth Banger

Truth be told, they had never been particularly passionate, not even in their early twenties. Zach had never considered himself a passionate man. — Alessandra Hazard

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions. — Joey Skaggs