English Punchline Quotes & Sayings

We accomplish much more when we are working WITH Him than when we are working for Him! — Evinda Lepins

The little girl, seeing she had lost one of her pretty shoes, grew angry, and said to the Witch, "Give me back my shoe!" "I will not," retorted the Witch, "for it is now my shoe, and not yours." "You are a wicked creature!" cried Dorothy. "You have no right to take my shoe from me." "I shall keep it, just the same," said the Witch, laughing at her, "and someday I shall get the other one from you, too." This made Dorothy so very angry that she picked up the bucket of water that stood near and dashed it over the Witch, wetting her from head to foot. Instantly the wicked woman gave a loud cry of fear, and then, as Dorothy looked at her in wonder, the Witch began to shrink and fall away. "See what you have done!" she screamed. "In a minute I shall melt away. — L. Frank Baum

The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch. — James McBride

Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken. — Terry Pratchett

The thing I am most afraid of is love. When you say you love someone you are giving them license to hurt you. — Dorothy Koomson

Yet they may determine attitudes though they cannot furnish formulas, and opens a region though they fail to give a map. — William James

I've got a sense of self-preservation. OK, granted , it's still in the original shrink wrap but I've got one if I ever want to use it. — Rachel Caine

The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones. — Lou Holtz

So much of life is in the smallness of moments ... but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant — Ally Condie

In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony ... — Jane Austen

The wind rose high and free, to soar in an open sky with no clouds. It passed over a broken landscape scattered with corpses not yet buried. A landscape covered, at the same time, with celebrations. It tickled the branches of trees that had finally begun to put forth buds.
The wind blew southward, through knotted forests, over shimmering plains and toward lands unexplored. This wind, it was not the ending. There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time.
But it was an ending. — Brandon Sanderson

I've been in love with you for damn-near my entire life, and the only regret I have is that I didn't realize it sooner. — Whitney Gracia Williams