Estocadas Quotes & Sayings

It didn't matter to her that Tamani only had weak magic, he was magic. — Aprilynne Pike

If I were to die today, she thought, and someone were to think over my life, they'd never know that moments like this, here on the Horseferry Road, between a Baptist chapel and a tobacconist's, were the truest things in it. — Sarah Waters

Maybe we have shoes so we can learn to walk in another's oath before judging their footsteps? — Nikki Rowe

People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know. — Zara Phillips

Want to get more done? Keep meditation #1 on your to-do list. — Waylon H. Lewis

I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it's that opening my own heart is what has brought me my greatest success and joy. — Oprah Winfrey

He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very special occasions, which this wasn't.) But he described our shortcomings, physical, mental, moral, and genetic, in great and insulting detail.
But somehow I was not insulted; I became greatly interested in studying his command of language. I wished that we had had him on our debate team. — Robert A. Heinlein

There are a hundred ways a man can bleed to death. And he can be pulled from the rubble of bitterness, of despair, as well as the wreckage of the Phoenix. And which rescue is the more real? Nothing you could have done for me ... was more important than the restoration of my hope. — Connie Willis

There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms. — Jeb Bush

I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious. — Barbra Streisand

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich. — Frederick Marryat

I like people. That's me. I like people on the street, and I also happen to like other people who have power. But I'll go to a party and realise I haven't spoken to anybody who can do anything for me. — John Polson