Fortnights Third Quotes & Sayings

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key. — Edward Abbey

I would like to curl up and become a small thing. About this big. And still. Very still. Have you ever become so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence? — Sarah Ruhl

I've been eight years with this beautiful little thing and I've got a partner for him now. After eight years of trying to unify the titles, it's going to be pretty hard to give this up. — Joe Calzaghe

For a child, everywhere is a playground; for an adult, it is the same, only the plays are different! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's said that the reason the elves and demons began their war is because of a broken alliance," he said, the world-weary damage to his face making him look wise. "I've always found it to be true - that the best of friends make the bitterest of enemies. Elves and demons, forever fighting. Who is to say that demons weren't the slaves of elves first? — Kim Harrison

The fact of a leading organ of Evangelical thought being edited for two successive fortnights from Trouville and Monte Carlo was generally admitted to have been a mistake. — Saki

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin. — William Ames

Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve. — Keanu Reeves

I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20. — Rachael Taylor

What is t that I did to deserve this? And what is it that Luthar did? Is he not just as I was? Arrogant, vain, and selfish as hell? Is he a better man? Then why has life punished me so harshly, and rewarded him so richly?
But Glokta already knew the answer. The same reason that innocent Sepp dan Teufel languishes in Angland with his fingers shortened. The same reason that loyal General Vissbruck died in Dagoska, while treacherous Magister Eider was let live. The same reason that Tulkis, the Gurkish Ambassador, was butchered in front of a howling crowd for a crime he did not commit.
He pressed his tongue into one of his few remaining teeth. Life is not fair. — Joe Abercrombie

Sometimes, I'll be flipping the channel at home and think, 'Wow, there's a lot of me on TV.' — Lester Holt

If I could live in a cabaret, I would. If I could live in 'Moulin Rouge,' I would. — Rita Ora

It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both. — Vance Havner

Already, I know that all of this will stay with me forever. It'll haunt me, but I also fear it will make me feel grateful. I say fear because at times I really don't want this to be a fond memory until it's over. I also fear that nothing really ends at the en. Things just keep going as long as memory can wield its ax, always finding a soft part in your mind to cut through and enter. — Markus Zusak

Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease. — Cormac McCarthy

Wherever people go to find peace - that's what I find in the ocean. — Willow Aster