Litis Contestatio Quotes & Sayings

Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon. — Walter De La Mare

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances. — Francis Bacon

No. I want you too much to take you in stingy little servings. Maybe you'll think that's greedy of me, but I'm not the kind of guy who takes what he wants in half measures. — Beth Kery

What is a living reality without experience? If there is anything about which we feel to be true, it is that the world we endure is authentic. We can see, touch and hear it. Our conscious existence of presence is an exhibition within the mind, but in many other occurrences, some of us rarely accept that we create our own realities. — Henry Johnson Jr

As the American poet, Marianne Moore, said: There is a great deal of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness. — William Strunk Jr.

peroration. He had left his opponents with nothing to say and nowhere to — Hilary Mantel

Bobbi doubted there was ever much future for a couple who had nothing in common except heterosexuality. — Donald E. Westlake

When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely. — Jackee Harry

I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted into puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost. — E. Lockhart