Gainsboroughs House Quotes & Sayings

To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame. — Nicole Krauss

Evidently, my judgment was so off, the only men I wanted were the ones who would treat me like shit. — Lauren Stewart

I cannot stay, little one. He laughed quietly into my mind. I am too large. "But how will I take care of you?" You wish to take care of me? He tilted his head. "Yes, of course. Mama says if I awaken something, it must stay with me, because it's my responsibility. No neighbors can know, and especially not the government or they'll take you away. So I bring everything to my room." I looked him over skeptically. "You might fit in my closet. — Lizzy Ford

God does not give His grace as He gives His sunshine - pouring it out on all alike. He discriminates in spiritual blessings. He gives strength according to our need. His eye is ever on us in tender, watchful love, and what we need He supplies. — J.R. Miller

What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be. ... a tour de force by one of England's best novelists ... . Atonement is a spectacular book; as good a novel - and more satisfying ... - than anything McEwan has written ... .sublimely written narrative ... . The Dunkirk passage is a stupendous piece of writing, a set piece that could easily stand on its own. ... — Noah Richler

It wasn't a rock. It was a dog's rubber bone, left behind months ago to be buried first under autumn leaves, then winter snow. Just an old rubber bone, but Batty was already braced for what she knew would come - the rushing in her ears, the stab in her stomach, and the seeping away of the colors from her world. The soft blue spring sky, the yellow forsythia hedge, even Ben's bright red hair - all dulled, all gray and wretched. — Jeanne Birdsall

Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie. — Niall Ferguson

The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make it real. — Eric Braeden

In this world's endless time and boundless space One may be born at last to match my sovereign grace. — Rabindranath Tagore

Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready. — Paul Waner

Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forgotten deceive themselves. — Niccolo Machiavelli

If you care about this country, if you want to take part in a citizen's movement that helps heal the deep racial, economic, and cultural divides tearing us apart, you must read Eric Deggans' Race-Baiter. No book of recent vintage so thoroughly dissects the media's monetized appetite for division. Provocative, honest, and smart, Race-Baiter is a supremely important book. Read it and let the conversation begin. — Connie May Fowler

If you're at the top, then brace for the fall. — Tori Kelly