Fortyseven Quotes & Sayings

People need books, but they don't know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. - Roger Mifflin — Christopher Morley

Take it and return it: the kiss of love. — Soren Kierkegaard

There are many things that have distorted the person inside you from what you were created to be — Sunday Adelaja

Clearly the West Indies are going to play their normal game, which is what they normally do — Tony Greig

There's an openness to his face, an innocence - a certain kind of niceness. It's the niceness that touches my heart the most. — Jenny Han

Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products. — Robert Higgs

Earnshaw was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point - one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed - they contrived in the end to reach it. — Emily Bronte

She found a seat in the corner and sat down, opening the cover and breathing in the glorious dusty scent of papery possibility. — Kate Morton

Fantasy, myth, legend, truth - all are intertwined in the story that is Scotland. — Laurence Overmire

A secret history of the US Government's Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a safe haven in the US for Nazis and their collaborators after WW2 and it details decades of clashes, often hidden, with other nations over war criminals here and abroad. — James Morcan

We cannot always judge man for only one part of his attitude. If we did so, we would be like the Pharisees in whose eyes Jesus was seen as bad, because He did not respect their rules about the Sabbath. They closed their eyes entirely to what would have lovable in Jesus, even in their sight. — Richard Wurmbrand

I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year. — Macaulay Culkin

Write the book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready. — Hilary Mantel

She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words. — William Faulkner