Gesia Quotes & Sayings

The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling which they overburden the inferior number is a shilling saved to their own pockets. — James Madison

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blue loved this ponderous, scholarly Gansey, too involved with facts to consider how he appeared on the outside. — Maggie Stiefvater

When you compete against yourself, you both win. — Frank Sonnenberg

What was it about this infuriating woman that reduced him to a twelve-year-old at the pool? — Codi Gary

I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art. — Robert Barry

Lawrence Millman is a favorite writer of mine. He did a travels on the trail of the Vikings. — John Gimlette

All our hopes of turning the cursed ground into the blessed ground, and thus regaining it, are doomed by the fact that it is God himself who cursed the ground, and it is He alone who is able to take back what he said and bless the earth again. — Deitrich Bonhoeffer

The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, improbable girls with pumped-up breasts and no hips - blondes, brunettes and redheads, but always with this bust development, so that a visitor of another species might judge from the preoccupation of artist and audience that the seat of procreation lay in the mammaries. Alice Chicoy ... who worked among the shining girls, was wide-hipped and sag-chested and she walked well back on her heels ... She was not in the least jealous of the calendar girls and the Coca-Cola girls. She had never seen anyone like them, and she didn't think anyone ever had. — John Steinbeck