Jephthahs Daughter Quotes & Sayings

My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another. — Buffalo Bill

Whatever had arrived to save her had not spoken, had not announced itself with anything except the silent killing it brought. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

I feel thankful to God, first and foremost, allowing me to enjoy this 'smell the roses' kind of thing. — Stevie Wonder

My first six years in the business were hopeless.
There are a lot of times when you sit and you say "Why am I doing this?
I'll never make it.
It's just not going to happen.
I should go out and get a real job, and try to survive." — George Lucas

The day Chess Pargeter looks t' engage himself with any woman's situation'll be a cold one in the Hot Place for sure — Gemma Files

I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely. — Mark Lawrence

Sometimes you have to be cruel ... in order to be even crueler. — Michael O'Donoghue

We are unique not by comparison but by compassion (the moral of my book The Cheetah and the Snail) — Shriram

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.' — Lillian Gordy Carter

Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship. — George Sand

You can read all the books in the world on the Nazi concentration camps and the gas chambers, and yet reality will draw upon you only when you are put through that yourself. It is a law of God, or nature, if you prefer, that pain, suffering and grief cannot be transferred or known by proxy. Neither empathy nor sympathy but experience alone is a valid currency of affliction. It alone makes you a card-holding member all allows you to join the club of the wretched of the earth. All else is counterfeit. — Kiran Nagarkar

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading. — Doris Lessing

14. Hateful Things: Someone has suddenly fallen ill and one summons the exorcist. Since he is not home, one has to send messages to look for him. After one has had a long fretful wait, the exorcist finally arrives, and with a sigh of relief one asks him to start his incantations. But perhaps he has been exorcising too many evil spirits recently; for hardly has he installed himself and begun praying when his voice becomes drowsy. Oh, how hateful! — Sei Shonagon

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon