Fiefs Were Quotes & Sayings

Guidance requires action, but it does not guarantee safety. — Caroline Myss

First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy. — Gail Collins

We have a history between us, and in some ways I think that is thicker than anger, thicker than blood. — Jodi Picoult

We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions. — Veerappa Moily

I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court. — Brad Gilbert

You'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears. — P.D. James

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We used to call her Little, Little come here, we'd say. Little, unhand the cat, but then one day she won't let us, "I am big," she says and her face is stormy. — Jenny Offill

What if you could just invent your family, your home, your life?
You could. You could call Sunday Wednesday. Be awake and living at 3 a.m. Use T-shirts instead of sheets. Eat lettuce like an apple. Blow your nose on socks.
Take four unrelated people and make a family. — Sarah Ellis

I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

One of the first comic things you do is imitate. — Robert Mankoff

The function of profits, finally, is to put constant and unremitting pressure on the head of every competitive business to introduce further economies and efficiencies, no matter to what stage these may already have been brought. — Henry Hazlitt

Why doubt thyself? Believe in your abilities. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence more people. — Sherman Alexie

You," she said, spearing Wayne in the chest with a finger. "I thought I told you not to come back." "I thought I ignored you. — Brandon Sanderson

Life was not all laughter and mornings at the beach. It was okay to cry. — Karen Kingsbury