Kevalena Everett Quotes & Sayings

Once more a good man is led astray by the undeniable sexiness of evil. — Sarah Rees Brennan

One by one, members of the Commons, speaking in turn at a lectern in the center of the chamber, added their charges and complaints. The King's councillors, they said, had grown rich at the cost of impoverishing the nation; they had deceived the King and wasted his revenues, causing the repeated demands for fresh subsidies. The people were too poor and feeble to endure further taxation. Let Parliament discuss instead how the King might maintain the war out of his own resources. — Barbara W. Tuchman

If I stopped dyeing my hair everyone would know that my golden hair is actually gray, and my long American youth would be over - and then what? — Marie Howe

Believing in God because doing so satisfies one's needs is different from believing that there is a God solely because of evidence. — Clifford Williams

When you survive your crisis, you teach us all how to survive it. — Laura Day

It was business, and business may be presumed to cover quite a lot of bad taste. — Ford Madox Ford

Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court. — Dean Cain

Kaylin is not known for her punctuality. She is known, in fact, for her lack
even by those outside of the Hawklord's command. — Michelle Sagara

Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates. — William Jennings Bryan

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft. — Vernor Vinge

He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be. — Alice Sebold

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes. — Dee Dee Myers

I saw Orin in bars or at post-tournament dances go up to a young lady he would like to pick up and use this fail-safe cross-sectional pick-up Strategy that involved an opening like "Tell me what sort of man you prefer, and then I'll affect the demeanor of that man." Which in a way of course is being almost pathologically open and sincere about the whole picking-up enterprise, but also has this quality of Look-At-Me-Being-So-Totally-Open-And-Sincere-I-Rise-Above-The-Whole-Disingenuous-Posing-Process-Of-Attracting-Someone-,-And-I-Transcend-The-Common-Disingenuity-In-A-Bar-Herd-In-A-Particularly-Hip-And-Witty-Self-Aware-Way-,-And-If-You-Will-Let-Me-Pick-You-Up-I-Will-Not-Only-Keep-Being-This-Wittily,-Transcendently-Open-,-But-Will-Bring-You-Into-This-World-Of-Social-Falsehood-Transcendence, which of course he cannot do because the whole openness-demeanor thing is itself a purposive social falsehood; it is a pose of poselessness; Orin Incandenza is the least open man I know. — David Foster Wallace

The saxophone is so human. Its tendency is to be rowdy, edgy, talk too loud, bump into people, say the wrong words at the wrong time, but then, you take a breath all the way from the center of the earth and blow. All that heartache is forgiven. All that love we humans carry makes a sweet, deep sound and we fly a little. — Joy Harjo