Liefer Quotes & Sayings

For I have promised to do the battle to the uttermost, by faith of my body, while me lasteth the life, and therefore I had liefer to die with honour than to live with shame ; and if it were possible for me to die an hundred times, I had liefer to die oft than yield me to thee; for though I lack weapon, I shall lack no worship, and if thou slay me weaponless that shall be thy shame. — Thomas Malory

Lady, for indeed
I loved you and I deemed you beautiful,
I cannot brook to see your beauty marred
Through evil spite: and if ye love me not,
I cannot bear to dream you so forsworn:
I had liefer ye were worthy of my love,
Than to be loved again of you - farewell;
And though ye kill my hope, not yet my love,
Vex not yourself: ye will not see me more. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I had liefer twenty years/Skip to the broken music of my brains/Than any broken music thou canst make. — Alfred Tennyson

We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate. — Joan Didion

Freedom is about what you can unleash. — Harriet Rubin

Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf. — Stanley Elkin

Truly men hate the truth; they'd liefer meet a tiger on the road. — Robinson Jeffers

I am held by the creator of the world. I am opening, I am unbounded, I am luminous, I am powerful. — Kenny Loggins

Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates. — Gertrude Stein

I realize Tiger Woods is Tiger Woods; he's intimidating. — Keegan Bradley

The volcanic bubbling of everything in one pan made it very difficult to hear a crying child on the doorstep. — Ainslie Hogarth

You used Neverleak," Shelley said, eyeing my craftsmanship with a skeptical frown. "The sale's on Stay-Tite." Shelley was the store manager, and her slumped shoulders and dour expression were as much a part of her uniform as the blue polo shirts we all had to wear. — Ransom Riggs