Effectually Def Quotes & Sayings

Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man. — Billy Sunday

She would roll up her sleeves and dispense with sentimentality, and do whatever blood-soaked, bad-smelling thing had to be done. She would become adept with axes. — Margaret Atwood

This is what happens. You put it away for a little while, and now and again you look in the closet for something else and you remember, and you think, soon. Then it becomes something that is just there, in the closet, and other things get crowded in front of it and on top of it and finally you don't think about it at all.
The thing that was your bright treasure. You don't think about it. A loss you could not contemplate at one time, and now it becomes something you can barely remember.
This is what happens.
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Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you. — Alice Munro

WHAT ARE YOU, NUTS? THE MAN'S A VAMPIRE!
Yeah, but he's a really, REALLY sexy one. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose. — Thomas Paine

I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever. — Andrea Bocelli

The statesman will soon find himself thwarted in some way or other, will deduce from this opposition a menace first to his plans, then to national prestige, and finally to the existence of the state itself - and so, regarding his country as the party attacked, will engage in a war of defence. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Iamsohappythatallwentwellsorryiaminahurryandihavenotimeforspacesidothinkadoption,consideringallthings,wastheonlyviableoption.remember,birthcontrolisagreatthingforteens.bewell — Scott Hildreth

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition. — Charles Caleb Colton