Emollient Quotes & Sayings

Diamond Jubilee with him for extra contrition. Her father was clearly exhausted, sleeping almost all the time now, like an aged dog. Why didn't he just go? Was he hanging on for a hundred? Two more years of this? It was mere existence - an amoeba had more life. "The triumph of the human spirit," the new nursing sister said, new enough to talk about "positive outcomes" and "enhancement programmes" - emollient management-speak, meaningless to most of the residents of Poplar Hill, who were either dying or demented or both. It was called a "care home" but there was precious little of either to be had when you were run by a profit-based health-care provider employing — Kate Atkinson

I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it. — Chris Klein

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores. — Robert Hughes

Ben scooped her up in his arms, holding her high against his chest as he carried her back into the cottage, past the shrouded, familiar shapes of the furniture into the night-dark bedroom. They were alone now for the first time. There was no Emmett, no Harris, no lies or masquerade or motives or revenge. There was just Ben and Rachel, together in the darkness. — Anne Stuart

There are certain advantages in being cursed by all and sundry ... especially, it dispenses you with having to be nice to anybody ... there's nothing more emollient, stultifying, emasculating than wanting to be liked ... "not nice!" ... that does it, you're free! ... — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

There are hundreds who don't know the difference between a cleansing cream and an emollient - which to our minds is practically the same as being illiterate. — Marjorie Hillis

I get along with everybody because I don't believe anybody. — Sirio Maccioni

The triumph of the human spirit," the new nursing sister said, new enough to talk about "positive outcomes" and "enhancement programmes" - emollient management-speak, meaningless to most of the residents of Poplar Hill, who were either dying or demented or both. It was called a "care home" but there was precious little of either to be had when you were run by a profit-based health-care provider employing minimum-wage staff. — Kate Atkinson

A blind man sees more than a fool, even when both his eyes are open. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The world is a dark place, and yet the coming of Jesus Christ shows us no one and nothing is hopeless. — Timothy Keller

Increasingly, Americans don't own America. — Marcy Kaptur

There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference. — Luis Figo

Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without. — Sri Chinmoy

God, I'm so glad you're mine, — Rachel Robinson

Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms. — Harold E. Varmus

Spending time with the ones who are dear to you is like being in a dream, is it not? — Sakura Tsukuba