Leewardings Quotes & Sayings

I think I see her chest rise as she catches her breath. Maybe she'll be the one to throw on the brakes. God knows I'm not going to. I might regret it later, but right now I'm not thinking about anything but what it would be like to see Olivia without that red dress. — M. Leighton

I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in. — Andy Murray

I used to walk out, at night, to the breakwater which divides the end of the harbor form the broad moor of the salt marsh. There was nothing to block the wind that had picked up speed and vigor from its Atlantic crossing. I'd study the stars in their brilliant blazing, the diaphanous swath of the milk Way, the distant glow of Boston backlighting the clouds on the horizon as if they'd been drawn there in smudgy charcoal. I felt, perhaps for the first time, particularly American, embedded in American history, here at the nation's slender tip. Here our westering impulse, having flooded the continent and turned back, finds itself face to face with the originating Atlantic, November's chill, salt expanses, what Hart Crane called the "unfettered leewardings," here at the end of the world. — Mark Doty

I was so full of hate that there was no room in me for such feelings as love, pity, kindness or honor or decency, — Carl Panzram

Only an elaborate treatise in ecology could do justice to the subject of what went wrong, — James C. Scott

Always being there was the essential secret for a wife. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

There is an Unger who lives on the other side of the marsh, in the boot of a giant. Seven children she has. Exactly half of them are boys. How can this be? — Lee Edward Fodi

The thing with cancer is that it's usually the chemo rather than the disease itself that makes the patient feel so ill, particularly at the start. — Amy Hoggart