Gobshite International Quotes & Sayings

Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary — Julian Barnes

George Washington became an official surveyor for Culpepper County at seventeen and a commissioned major in the militia at twenty; — Jennifer Senior

This came as a strange letdown, to see how the game always went to those who knew the rules without understanding the lesson. — Barbara Kingsolver

Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it's going to get larger and larger, and it's going to keep coming up. — Herschel Walker

Her voice is filled with distant sonorities, like reverberations in a cave: now you are at the place of annihilation, now you are at the place of annihilation. And she is herself a cave full of echoes, she is a system of repetitions, she is a closed circuit. — Angela Carter

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is - not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be. — Robert A. Heinlein

And I need you, my love," he said. "I need you so much that I panic when I think that perhaps I will not be able to persuade you to come back with me to Enfield. I need you so much that I cannot quite contemplate the rest of my life if it must be lived without you. I need you so much that - Well, the words speak for themselves. I need you."
"To look after Augusta?" she said. She dared not hear what he was surely saying. She dared not hope. "To look after Enfield? To provide you with an heir?"
"Yes," he said, and her heart sank like a stone to be squashed somewhere between her slippers and the parlor carpet."And to be my friend and my confidant and my comfort. And to be my lover. — Mary Balogh

The more I wonder, the more I love. — Alice Walker

And what we say - that what He willeth is right and what He doth not not will is wrong, is not so to be understood, as if, should God will something inconsistent, it would be right because He willed it. For it does not follow that if God would lie it would be right to lie, but rather that he were not God. — Anselm Of Canterbury

You have to break in half to love somebody. — Robin Williams

I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver. — Felix Baumgartner

Clever wives are mostly silent ,alert and pay equal attention to limiting the kind and degree of emotions of family which creates and destroy HOMES. — Kishore Bansal