Herpestes Quotes & Sayings

My childhood was appalling. — Taylor Caldwell

I suppose a great and soul filling love is perhaps the greatest experience a man may have, but it is such a rarity as to be almost negligible. — Everett Ruess

The fuss made over the chickens at the checkpoints is not to be believed. Unlike me they had their own papers. — Elizabeth Wein

The result is a nation where gurus and therapists have filled the roles once occupied by spouses and friends, and where professional caregivers minister, like seraphim around the throne, to the needs of people taught from infancy to look inside themselves for God. Therapeutic religion promises contentment, but in many cases it seems to deliver a sort of isolation that's at once comfortable and terrible - leaving us alone with the universe, alone with the God Within. — Ross Douthat

This wasn't a position she wanted to be in. And yet ... yet she knew that she was going to do it anyway. — Maureen Johnson

Violet!' Lincoln said, then sighed. 'You don't love him. This isn't real. You know what's real and it's hard and it hurts and we can't ... Damn it, Vi
we're real! — Jessica Shirvington

I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the first few pages, I'm like, 'Gah, this obviously isn't a proper book. Why would I want to carry on reading it?' — Sophie Hannah

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of evreyone, and withich, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves. — Scott Turow

Premature as the question may be, it is hardly possible not to wonder whether we will find any answer to our deepest questions, any signs of the workings of an interested God, in a final theory. I think that we will not. — Steven Weinberg

Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward. — Dallas Willard

Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me ... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link. — Tea Leoni