Emily Owens Quotes & Sayings

In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove. — George Herbert

In Czech, according to Milan Kundera, litost is a state of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery. — Rabih Alameddine

Sentiment is wherever you go. — Mitch Albom

When everything is available, nothing is ever enough. — Emma Woolf

She strode away, steeling both her heart and her belly against the hurt. It wasn't just the body, she thought, that could shatter. And it wasn't only fists and pipes and bats that could shatter it. — J.D. Robb

You'll never get dressed as quick as when you wake up next to a naked dead chick — Ron Bennington

As life draws nearer to its end, I feel more and more clearly that it will not matter in the least, at the last day, what form of religion a man has professed-nay, that many who have never even heard of Christ, will in that day find themselves saved by His blood. — Lewis Carroll

We have to stop acquiescing even to the wording that the liberals use. — Ted Cruz

I need gnome books. You know, because sorcerers just don't get them. He didn't get the joke. — Chloe Neill

Little thieves get shot, but great ones escape."
Kelly Oliver, WOLF: A Jessica James Mystery — Kelly Oliver

Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the wisest men of antiquity have uttered, and whose worth the wise of every succeeding age have assured us of; and yet we learn to read only as far as Easy Reading, the primers and classbooks, and when we leave school, the Little Reading, and story books, which are for boys and beginners; and our reading, our conversation and thinking, are all on a very low level, worthy only of pygmies and manikins. — Henry David Thoreau

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. — Charles De Gaulle

I must go live at the ends of the earth and have my child there while I wait for Min and Jing to be freed.
That happy day will come: two men making their way towards a little cottage lost in the open countryside.
The door opens ... — Shan Sa

Recognition is what you feel when a friend sums up exactly what you're feeling, when an author gives you the right words, when someone "gets" you. — Laurie A. Helgoe

I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance. — H.L. Mencken