Lydiane Short Quotes & Sayings

Aren't you going to look at it, Verity?" asked Miss Deane. Slowly, I unwrapped it. I saw a small, slim girl with serious eyes and a little pointed face, wearing her second-best dress and posed stiffly beside an artificial rosebush. Standing behind her, rising out of a sort of mist, was a fair-haired young man in a white shirt. There was no doubt as to who it was. It was my half-brother Alexander, and he was smiling. — Susan Green

Everybody needs encouragement, even when things are going well. — Tony Dungy

I would rather go swimming with great white sharks than wade in romance 'cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance. — Adam Young Owl

[B]ecause of change, what we love continues to appear, and what we hate never lasts forever. — Steve Hagen

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. — Malcolm Muggeridge

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

Divorce is brutal and horrible and ... you have to actively work to get your life back on track. — Jane Kaczmarek

A good worship session needs to have some quiet intimate moments as much as those high anthemic moments. Too much of both is bad. If there are no valleys, there would be no mountains. — Gangai Victor

The suits love their numbers, Malone thinks. This new management breed of cops are like the sabermetrics baseball people. They believe the numbers say it all, and when the numbers don't say what they want them to, they massage them like Koreans on Eighth Avenue until they get a happy ending. — Don Winslow

The great silent majority. — Richard M. Nixon

Oh, I don't know, may be because I was, ya know, a little distracted by THE VOICE IN MY HEAD! Jacque realized she was yelling. — Quinn Loftis

The truth is that Islam itself was a barbaric reaction against that very humane complexity that is really a Christian character; that idea of balance in the deity, as of balance in the family, that makes that creed a sort of sanity, and that sanity the soul of civilisation. — G.K. Chesterton