Flotilla Of Merchant Quotes & Sayings

I will see you free of Jabez Howard before this week is out," he told me, touching my cheek again with that disturbingly gentle touch. "Do not smile at me, so - I mean to do it, and I shall. Or do you find the prospect of marrying me so amusing?" The smile died on my lips. "You cannot marry me." "Oh, can I not?" He grinned boldly. "I have a reputation, my love, for doing the impossible. In one week's time I warrant you'll not doubt my word. — Susanna Kearsley

An arm snaked around my waist, pulling me to a stop. For the first time in my life I was literally stuck between two boys. Huh. And here I thought it would be more fun than this. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I have no regrets because I know I did my best - all I could do. — Midori Ito

Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan scornful mouth smiled and I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances. — Henry Clay

The lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional ... In the age-long war between men and women, she is a hostage in the enemy's camp. Her fortunes do not rise and fall with those of women but with those of men. — Emily James Smith Putnam

A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel to know what is good, but it is not instructed as to the reason why ... But sometimes he is instructed by angelic illumination, both that this act is good and as to the reason why it is good. — Thomas Aquinas

It is time to stop standing at the edges of rooms. Hugging the walls. Living in my head. Wishing I had something to say. — Shonda Rhimes

Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality. — Frederick Lenz

I decided to join the military to give back to my country and help pay for college. — Steve Stivers

I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea. — Nancy Werlin

I don't think you can consistently be a winning trader if you're banking on being right more than 50 percent of the time. You have to figure out how to make money being right only 20 to 30 percent of the time. — Bill Lipschutz

Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond. — Kahlil Gibran

God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Africa will thrive. — Bono