Flavigny Rose Quotes & Sayings

I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the members: 'You are all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes;' and asked for their resignations. — Helen Thomas

Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work. — Hale Irwin

Water matted his black hair into spikes and peppered his skin with a fresh sheen. If I shut my eyes I could still see the one who bound me, his smile bright as the white sun as he emerged from our latest dip in the sea. I fought the sudden urge to bury my face in his chest and run my fingers through that hair. — Jennifer Silverwood

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. — Scott Westerfeld

I understood that Valek's loyalty to the Commander was without question. His blue eyes held a fierce determination and I knew in my soul that Valek would take his own life after he had taken mine. — Maria V. Snyder

Life is too short to be in a hurry. — Oscar Wilde

He never raised a hand to us. He always said that inflicting pain, even as a last resort, was a sign that intelligence had been exhausted. He said smacking just passed on violence as an inheritance. But he was not soft with his words; when he called you to order, it pulled you up sharp. It wasn't just a case of not teaching children to hit out. He believed the far more important lesson for the child was to realise that there are always words. However bad a child's behaviour, there were always more words; the time to stop talking was never a point he would reach. — Christian Cook

The story pours over me like water, drips down onto my head until I'm immersed head-to-toe, transported between the covers. — Riley Redgate

In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep. — Nikolai Gogol

But the internet, with its army of anonymous hatemongers, still tried to keep the absurd story alive. — Barkha Dutt