Everything's Coming Up Mellie Quotes & Sayings

This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death. — Robert Bolt

Collectivism leads to concentration camps, leader worship and war. — George Orwell

Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother. — Charlaine Harris

The more that's known about the world, the more people seem determined to search for what is lost or hidden. There are archaeologists, treasure hunters, and ghost hunters
the legions of the curious
searching for secrets and the places that hold them. They ignore the possibility that some secrets are best kept, some places better left untouched ... — K.J. Wignall

My eyes drift down the cliffs that rise abruptly from the beach and to the fishing boats resting by the shore. There is a comforting rhythm to the waves. They rise and swell, demanding full attention, only to subside to a faint whisper. I watch the interplay of sand and water in a cavernous outlet beneath the bluff. (p.97) — Angella M. Nazarian

As if that in some way made it better, that fate hadn't planned it weeks in advance. — David Levithan

That was the thing about guys, though: Sometimes, they had the emotional depth of a flea. — Sara Shepard

Deception may give us what we want for the present, but it will always take it away in the end. — Rachel Hawthorne

I'm not just anybody.' 'No, indeed. Nobody is. — Fred Vargas

It is feasible and easy everywhere to undermine administrative power and, in fact, it has been drastically weakened in all Western countries. The defense of individual rights has reached such extremes as to make society as a whole defenseless against certain individuals. It is time, in the West, to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

We can help the work of justice by preparing for a marathon, not a sprint. A long obedience in the same direction — Gary Haugen

I just got rode like Seabiscuit, and now I'm being kicked out of this warm, comfortable bed for no good reason. — A.E. Via

I love doing concert music. — Les Baxter

What offended you this time? His charming manner? His too broad smile? His well-groomed appearance?"
"I don't like him," she said with her usual maddening half-smile.
"Don't like him! He's fashionable and handsome, with fortune to spare-"
"So is my reticule. Unfortunately, it also has more personality, and nearly as much intelligence. — Sabrina Jeffries