F V Emmy Rose Quotes & Sayings

Dimension stone, flint, rubble, burnt or unburnt brick, use them as you find them. For it is not every neighborhood or particular locality that can have a wall built of burnt brick like that at Babylon , where there was plenty of asphalt to take the place of lime and sand, and yet possibly each may be provided with materials of equal usefulness so that out of them a faultless wall may be built to last forever. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

We must be challenged to improve, and adversity is the challenger. — John Wooden

The army of the sea shall stand before the city, then shall go away for a passage that shall not be very long, as a great prey of citizens shall be holding the ground. The fleet returns. The great emblem recovered. — Nostradamus

Listen.
I will lose myself
if it means I can find you. — Alaska Gold

In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts. — L. Ron Hubbard

Of love. Yes, that was it: he thought I meant to proposition — Rachel Hartman

The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them. — Edgar Degas

I've seen petite brides carry a ballgown, and I have also seen plus-size women carry a ballgown, though you wouldn't think so. — Reem Acra

Research has shown that middle-income wage earners would benefit most from a large reduction in corporate tax rates. The corporate tax is not a rich-man's tax. Corporations don't even pay it. They just pass the tax on in terms of lower wages and benefits, higher consumer prices, and less stockholder value. — Lawrence Kudlow

The key to the Shadow Fold is finally within our grasp, and right now, I should be in the war room, hearing their report. I should be planning our trip north. But I'm not, am I?" My mind had shut down, given itself over to the pleasure coursing through me and the anticipation of where his next kiss would land. "Am I?" he repeated and he nipped at my neck. I gasped and shook my head, unable to think. He had me pushed up against the door now, his hips hard against mine. "The problem with wanting," he whispered, his mouth trailing along my jaw until it hovered over my lips, "is that it makes us weak." And then, at last, when I thought I couldn't bear it any longer, he brought his mouth down on mine. His — Leigh Bardugo

Don't be jealous of anyone. I guarantee you, if everyone walked into a room, and dumped their problems onto the floor, when they saw what everyone else's problems were, they'd be scrambling to get their own problems back before someone else got to them first. — Kim Gruenenfelder

My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children. — Fay Weldon

My children are grown now, they are more independent. — Vanessa Paradis