Gladding Braided Quotes & Sayings

There was much less laughter and a lot more hanging around in the library when Hermione was your best friend. Harry — J.K. Rowling

Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind? — V.S. Naipaul

It was November, that quiet, gray time of the year when you feel like holding someone's hand. Gretel had her own hands clasped together, like a corpse. — Alice Hoffman

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it's the best state ever. — Stirling Moss

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it. — Al Leiter

I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish. — Carey Mulligan

The good works of the unsaved may indeed benefit their fellow-creatures; but until life in Christ has been received, they cannot please God. — Hudson Taylor

If everything I have become were not machine-made I might be able to take the risk of being human with you. — Jeanette Winterson

I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that.But I grew into being a performer. — Rosanne Cash

...they marveled at the animal's elusiveness, loyalty, and affection, its willingness to defend its territory; its stamina and ability to travel long distances and resist hunger for many days; its acute use of odor, sight, and sound in locating prey and avoiding danger; its patience, following a sick or wounded prey for great distances; and its contentment to be away from its home for long periods of time. Working cooperatively with fellow pack mates, the wolf demonstrated time and again it power over prey by encircling it, ambushing it, or running it to exhaustion --the same methods that Native Americans themselves used. In all these manifestations, they found the wolf supremely worthy of emulation. — Bruce Hampton

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound. — Joseph Joubert

I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me. — Mohamed ElBaradei

~ You know young Francis Weston? He that waits on the king? His people are giving out that you're a Hebrew... Next time you're at court, take your cock out and put it on the table and see what he says to that.
~ I do that anyway, if the conversation flags. — Hilary Mantel

I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and on the basis of the general social advantage, taking an ever greater responsibility for directly organizing investments. — John Maynard Keynes