Eurescribe Quotes & Sayings

If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years. — John Major

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat. — Cormac McCarthy

The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out of doors. When a dog really loves, it prefers the person who gives it nothing, and perhaps is too ill ever to take it out for exercise, to all the liberal cooks and active dog-boys in the world. — Frances Power Cobbe

If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive.
If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive. — Raymond Chandler

Give Dayrolles a chair. — Lord Chesterfield

The Secret of Happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. — F.H. Bradley

We all have issues we're trying to overcome, Miss Tate. Everyone wants to feel special, whether we admit it or not. And loving without limits and allowing ourselves to be loved in return is what life's all about. Or at least, what it should be about. Everything else just gets in the way. — Leisa Rayven

Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent! — Tom Robbins

It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance. — Robert Charles Wilson

I never feel as though I'm ever, ever alone. — Chita Rivera

I shot Footloose nearby, and we used to hike. Very fond memories. — Dianne Wiest

Worrying is arrogant because God knows what He's doing. — Barbara Cameron

Come over here and taste me, he says, his voice little but a seductive whisper. — Felicity Brandon