Distintly Quotes & Sayings

You Americans so quiet because you Americans don't know anything for real. You know your gas prices, you know your baseball numbers but do you know that no piece of paper can be folded more than seven times? — Alison Espach

At that moment, I wished with everything in my body that things could be different. I wished I could pluck out the threads of him that I didn't care for and keep the ones I liked. But then again, I knew that people couldn't be pulled apart in that way. Those severed threads would just cause the whole of him to unravel. — Ann Howard Creel

it was clear that the invisible line had been crossed, the line where on one side stood potential and doubt and the putting out of feelers that could be revoked at any moment and on the other stood strong emotion, complicit smiles, and a romantic connection that exists on its own and has a presence that cannot be ignored. The world was no longer the way it was before this connection came into existence. — Anat Talshir

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. — Charles Dickens

Honest men cannot be expected to anticipate the actions of scoundrels. — Mary Street

To the wickedness of the Papacy humanity owes much. The goodness of the Papacy owes a terrible debt to humanity. — Oscar Wilde