Gornet Cuib Quotes & Sayings

Caleb frowns at him. "How old are you, anyway?"
"Eighteen."
"And you don't think you're too old to be with my little sister?"
Tobias lets out a short laugh. "She isn't your little anything. — Veronica Roth

Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place. — Jacque Fresco

Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will. — Brad Bird

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist. — Lucan

...For can you think how it would be, to never, never hear a meadow lark sing again...? — Bess Streeter Aldrich

There are who are so pitiful over the poor man, that, finding they cannot lift him beyond the reach of the providence which intends there shall always be the poor on the earth, will do for him nothing at all. "Where is the use?" they say. They treat their money like their children, and would not send it into a sad house. If they had themselves no joys but their permanent ones, where would the hearts of them be? — George MacDonald

The horizon was frosted with a greenish smear, as if ranks of campfires from distant tribes had divined the news already and were burning an homage to Elphaba before the sun could set on the day of her death.
He could smell her in the collar of the cape, and he wept for the first time. — Gregory Maguire

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way. — Ben Stiller

The task that lies before me is daunting and the rewards are uncertain. I should probably let someone else do it. — John S. Hall

My husband says this longing for isolation is not a good quality, that if I wanted to be a hermit I should have moved to the West Coast and adopted a lot of cats, not gotten married and had children that demand to be fed several times a day. — Anna White

Honeymoon's overtime to get married. — Julius J. Epstein

Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge. — Lord Kelvin

I see no virtue where I smell no sweat. — Francis Quarles