Lyres Reviews Quotes & Sayings

I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her pale luminous loveliness. — Philippa Gregory

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money. — Ben Carson

The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them. — Martin Luther

Love.

Yeah.

Fuck him. — Jennifer Kacey

The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command. — Steve Blake

All Negroes shall be prohibited from voting, holding public office, practicing law, medicine, or teaching in any class above the grade of grammar school, and they shall be taxed 100 per cent of all sums in excess of $10,000 per family per year which they may earn or in any other manner receive. — Sinclair Lewis

Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics. — Alexander Smith

Dan Fouts fumbled the game away for Chargers. — Bob Griese

She started to explain her project to him again but the words stopped in her throat. 'You don't have to understand it,' she said. 'It's mine. — Emily St. John Mandel

And in my heart I despised the life I led in Seattle. I was sick of it and had no idea how to change it. I thought that in Chinook, away from Taylor and Silver, away from Marian, away from people who had already made up their minds about me, I could be different. I could introduce myself as a scholar-athlete, a boy of dignity and consequence, and without any reason to doubt me people would believe I was that boy, and thus allow me to be that boy. I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others. This was an idea that died hard, if it ever really died at all. — Tobias Wolff