Dioptrick Quotes & Sayings

Lord Peter Wimsey stretched himself luxuriously between the sheets provided by the Hotel Meurice. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved. — Karl Barth

Work out your salvation with fear and trembling. — Anonymous

Kestrel felt a slow, slight throb, a shimmer in the blood. She knew it well.
Her worst trait. Her best trait.
The desire to come out on top, to set her opponent under her thumb.
A streak of pride. Her mind ringed with hungry rows of foxlike teeth. — Marie Rutkoski

The bright stars of the skies are far to touch; but there are other shiny stars that you can touch easily: The books of the libraries! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Simon looked down at himself and took it all in. The billows of the shirt. The deep, chest-exposing V. The tightness of the leather. "Why is it," he said after a moment, "that whenever I think I've found the most terrible thing that could happen to me, I'm always wrong. — Cassandra Clare

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special. — Kit Williams

I might be a stalwart, but I'm not a kingmaker. — Eric Abetz

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to. — John Irving

A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind. — Winston Churchill

'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays. — George Farquhar

And there's always retrospect to light a clearer path. — Emily Saliers