Lincoln From His Contemporaries Quotes & Sayings

Nick continued, unable to keep the smug smile form his lips. "Shall I tell you what I would do if I discovered I'd been a royal ass and had lost the only woman I'd ever really wanted?"
Ralston's eyes narrowed on his brother. "I don't imagine I could stop you."
Indeed not," Nick said, "I can tell you I wouldn't be standing in this godforsaken field in this godforsaken cold waiting for that idiot Oxford to shoot at me. I would walk away from this ridiculous, antiquated exercise, and I would find that womand tell her that I was a royal ass. And then I would do whatever it takes to convince her that she should take a chance on me despite my being a royal ass. And once that's done, I would get her, immediatley, to the nearest vicar and get the girl married. And with child. — Sarah MacLean

Whatever storm was brewing, I'd find it and fight it. If it was the price of being with Curran, then I would pay it. He was worth it. — Ilona Andrews

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization. — Helen Suzman

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels. — Virginia Woolf

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity. — Denis Diderot

Another important rule of affair-having: Never be discreet at the office. — Dave Barry

There are guys I'd love to learn from, but they wouldn't be a good fit for me, so I read their blogs and books. — Ryan Blair

A day without laughing is a day wasted — Charlie Chaplin

The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius. — Thomas Carlyle

Brewing and serving tea is an aesthetic ritual in Iran, performed several times a day. We serve tea in transparent glasses, small and shapely, the most popular of which is called slim-waisted: round and full at the top, narrow in the middle and round and full at the bottom. The color of the tea and its subtle aroma are an indication of the brewer's skill. — Azar Nafisi

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe. — Dallas Willard