Divinagracia Family Quotes & Sayings

Imagine the wizened quality of a life blanched of contradiction and double standard.
p 44 — Michael Perry

The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times. — Martha Beck

He who regards many things easy will find many difficulties. Therefore the sage regards things difficult, and consequently never has difficulties. — Laozi

Had the girl had any common sense, she would have dropped the line at once. But she had no sense. She made no sense. She was a pale English rose of a governess, adrift in a watery wilderness, on her way to a grueling post on a godforsaken island, when any fool could have told her-a woman so lovely need never work for her keep.
Had the men around her any sense, they would have cut the rope immediately. But they were idiots, bloody shite-for-brains idiots, too entranced by the pretty girl in peril to reach for their knives.
Had Gray his own knife, he would have drawn it. But he wasn't wearing his knife, because he wasn't the captain on this ship, was he? Nor an officer, nor even part of the crew. He was just a stupid, overdressed passenger who hadn't strapped on a goddamned knife that morning because it might ruin the lines of his goddamned brand-new coat. — Tessa Dare

The reason mountain climbers are tied together is to keep the sane ones from going home. — Gerhard E Frost

What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds. — Thomas Sowell

We are all descended from monsters. — Tess Gerritsen

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters. — Pablo Picasso