Freeverse Quotes & Sayings

I have learned that the love a mother has for her child is unique among human emotions. Every mother knows this insticntively, but that doesn't mean it doesn't need articulating. — Lisa Scottoline

The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions. — Ferdinand Marcos

I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita. — Vladimir Nabokov

That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year."
"Why?" Isabelle said.
"So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means. — Cassandra Clare

The stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West End swagger. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Why, when we regain consciousness, is it not an identity other than the one we had previously that is embodied in us? It is not clear what dictates the choice nor why, among the millions of human beings we might be, it is the being we were the day before that we unerringly grasp. — Marcel Proust

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people. — Peter Singer

I never even thought to look for other - oof!" Lunging forward I found myself tripping right over a nice big chunk of nothing. I stumbled forward; my body surged with the heat of concentrated humiliation. Finally I regained my footing and looked awkwardly up at Joel. "Ha," I said as a failed effort to laugh at myself.
With no hesitation Joel turned around and walked over to the spot that I'd tripped. He bent down and took a firm grip on an armful of thin air. He heaved it up into his arms and walked it over to the edge of the sidewalk and tossed it out of the way. He brushed off his hands with vigor and said, "Don't want anyone else tripping over that invisible log. — Shawn Kirsten Maravel

They know how to play well but they do not know how to go through a whole tournament. We have been there and done it. They haven't. — Jens Lehmann

The night had fallen. I had let my tools drop from my hands. Of what moment now was my hammer, my bolt, or thirst, or death? On one star, one planet, my planet, the Earth, there was a little prince to be comforted. I took him in my arms, and rocked him. I said to him:
"The flower that you love is not in danger. I will draw you a muzzle for your sheep. I will draw you a railing to put around your flower. I will
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I did not know what to say to him. I felt awkward and blundering. I did not know how I could reach him, where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more.
It is such a secret place, the land of tears. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I thought, let the best minds of my generation soliloquize about power over some other poor woman's body, I'm off. — Salman Rushdie

The heart breaks in so many different ways that when it heals, it will have fault lines ... — John Geddes

Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you really don't want to smile at. Do it for Peace. — Mother Teresa

What I am out to do is make sure that the Met continues to be the most exciting encyclopedic museum in the world. I want to sustain the vibrancy that makes it exciting to work here, that makes it exciting for visitors. The art remains central. — Thomas P. Campbell