Gentling A Wild Quotes & Sayings

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened. — Andrew Carnegie

A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort. — Jules De Goncourt

Men who have slandered the opposite sex have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are. — Christine De Pizan

My playing is no more like her's, than a lamp is like sunshine. — Jane Austen

I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse. — Michael Caine

You're a fucking idiot, Carter. That girl has been in love with you since the moment she saw you. You were her childhood love. You were her fucking god. She might've wiped your asshole if you asked her to. Chicks don't move on from the same kind of love she had for you. They might live with it, they might learn to love other guys, but they don't move on. Inside, the what-ifs consume them. — R.J. Lewis

You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life. — Val Kilmer

An accidental chaos blindly serving up the unaccountable beauty he now saw — Anne Rice

Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago ... — Mary Mapes Dodge

Right. I can see it now. Merry Christmas, everybody! And by the way, did I tell you I'm a vampire? No need to pass the gravy, just bare your neck- — Kerrelyn Sparks

I held it out and Caleb took it. This was the first book he had held in his hands. He made me smile, opening it upside down and back to front, but he touched the pages with the utmost care, as if gentling some fragile-boned wild thing. The godliest among us did not touch the Bible with such reverence as he showed to that small book. — Geraldine Brooks

Beware of people who constantly assert their integrity and honor. People of character don't have to point it out. — Michael Josephson

And we're at four. Alexis Ann, I think we're in an abusive relationship. — Melissa A. Craven

But that was two years ago. She wasn't sexy to me anymore. Now she was lethal. — Penelope Douglas