Incontrast Quotes & Sayings

No bal maidens or spallers — Winston Graham

It is only an island of light surrounded by a vastly greater area of greyness and that fades ultimately into the black of ignorance. — George R R Martin

Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him."
"I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me. — Josh Lanyon

Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead. — Kara Goucher

Yes, I always had that sense it was wrong. I don't think anybody can kill somebody and think that it's right. — Jeffrey Dahmer

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. — Frederick Law Olmsted

I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home. — Poppy Z. Brite

Development is maintenance. — Brian Marick

Both of us don't go backwards and I think that is the key to the fight. Whoever ends up going backwards is going to lose. — Ricky Hatton

One cannot, therefore, understand Arabic science without considering the extent to which Islam influenced scientific and philosophical thought. Arabic science was, throughout its golden age, inextricably linked to religion. Clearly, the scientific revolution of the Abbasids would not have taken place if it were not for Islam, incontrast to the spread of Christianity over the preceding centuries, which had nothink like the same effect in stimulation and encouraging original scientific thinking. — Jim Al-Khalili

It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself — Jack London

That was the night I learned that the things we don't ask about - ignore, walk by - those can be the most deadly of all. — Rebecca Serle

So," he said. "Mab."
I grunted vaguely in reply.
"You hit that," Sanya said. — Jim Butcher

O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts. Possess them not with fear. — William Shakespeare