Evee Bennett Quotes & Sayings

Where did the bonds of maternity end? All children grew up, changed, became somebody else. Parents who trembled that they might lose a gap-toothed toddler to some terrible accident ended up losing him anyway, always, to time. The toddlers died, after all, and what was left was a bond with another adult, who had once been the beloved child. — Nancy Kress

The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us. — Viktor Yanukovych

There are many images and realities of what women are, become, can be - strong, vulnerable, dogged, determined, frail, brave, courageous. The faces of women are at once gentle, reflective, firm; steeped with a sense of self, the lives of women growing older are lives of care, toil, splendour and glory ... the future is not to be feared. — Jocelynne Scutt

But this encompassment of her own characterization, based on shreds of convention, peopled by phantoms and voices antipathetic to her, was a sorry and mistaken creation of Tess's fancy - a cloud of moral hobgoblins by which she was terrified without reason. — Thomas Hardy

The barrenness of sand, as it is usually pictured, was not caused by simple dryness, but apparently was due to the ceaseless movement that made it inhospitable to all living things. What a difference compared with the dreary way human beings clung together year in year out. — Kobo Abe

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all. — Claes Oldenburg

Then, before leaving, she handed the president a note from one of her young sons. The boy asked the president if he would be so kind, while he was staying there, as to please remember to feed his goldfish. When the president read that, he assured the Aga Khan and his wife, "Absolutely." He said he would be honored to do it and promised that he would do it himself. So one of the first things he did the next morning was feed the goldfish. And he did it every morning that they were there. — Joseph Petro

Grandfather Razini stole it from a port in Newsensefords a couple of years ago."
She raised her brows."How do you steal a boat?"
"I have no idea, but I'd love to try it some time. — Emory Sharplin

As long as young people feel they have got no hope but to blow themselves up you are never going to make progress. — Cherie Blair

Leo had once joked about writing an allegorical sketch where Parody packed its bags, shut up shop and put a sign on the door which read: "Closed. Any inquiries please contact the Real". — Patrick McGuinness

When do we get to the part where I get inspired by this wonder boy and my seriously bitchy attitude toward men is miraculously healed? — H. Raven Rose

I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to strangers. So when people come up to me in the street, I just find it quite awkward. I don't really know what to say to them. — Hannah Murray

She looked at Woolf. "There's some kind of ... thing."
"That sentence wasn't as helpful as you probably intended it to be," said Marcus. — Dan Wells