Encompassed Kingdoms Quotes & Sayings

The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey. — C.S. Lewis

I'm ain't crazy to be normal — Guy Harduf

Many small businesses are doomed from day one, not from competition or the economy, but from the ignorance of their owners ... their destiny is already decided because they have no idea how a business should be operated. — William Manchee

There was a Sabbath lull in the air, which, in a settlement unused to Sabbath influences, looked ominous. — Bret Harte

Thither he bent his way, determined there
to rest at noon; and entered soon the shade
high roofed, and walks beneath, and alleys brown,
That opened in the midst a woody scene;
Nature's own work it seemed, Nature-taught Art — John Milton

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief — Euripides

The right wrist, because I'm right-handed - so that must be the one that's done most wrong. Although, now that I think, my sins have mostly been ambidextrous. — A. L. Kennedy

But what on earth had possessed her, to take a wagon this far beyond nowhere? When — Emma Donoghue

If you have to compete, compete with yourself. — Debasish Mridha

I'm closer to Bob Newhart than Rodney Dangerfield. — Jim Gaffigan

And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave? — Veronica Roth

Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance. — Michael Jackson

It seems to me that when you look back at a life - yours or another's - what you see is a path that weaves into and out of deep shadow. So much is lost. What we use to construct the past is what has remained in the open, a hodgepodge of fleeting glimpses. Our histories, like my father's current body, are structures built of toothpicks. So what I recall of that last summer in New Bremen is a construct of both what stands in the light and what I imagine in the dark where I cannot see. — William Kent Krueger

Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives. — Dean Koontz

We had become a race of eccentrics and openly declared an array of singular whims and suspicions, at least while daylight allowed this audacity. — Thomas Ligotti