Madrones Quotes & Sayings

To be fulfilled and happy it is enough simply to exist. — Marty Rubin

Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one
except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative, practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity. — Henry Adams

I don't know why, but with each new woman it seemed like the first time, almost as if I had never been with a woman before. — Charles Bukowski

Important safety tip - never look a vampire in the eye. — Laurell K. Hamilton

The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth? — Sunday Adelaja

Tolstoy had written something about happy families being all alike and unhappy ones each unhappy in its own way. — Alan Bradley

What is about to happen between us will be two people making love." A kiss on the side of her neck sent an arrow of hot desire to her core. "Few both of us, 'twill be a first."
"I... I'm no virgin, Creigh."
He puffed a burst of laughter. "Hell, neither am I. Far from it. Knowing the mechanics will heighten our pleasure, but it's the love, leannan, that will bind us. — Vonnie Davis

I always took my workouts serious because I have a football background. I came from football, so when I got to baseball, I continued my football workouts in the offseason. — Frank Thomas

What did he really want, anyway? To buy new books when they came out in hardback. — Rainbow Rowell

This oath is the oath we all swear. Not to a god, or a master, or even to the Ludus Achillea... but to our sisters who stand here with us. Our sisters. This is the oath that binds us all, one to one, all to all, so that we are no longer free. We belong to each other. We are bound to each other. In swearing to each other, we free ourselves from the outside world, from the world of men, from those who would seek to bind us to Fate and that which would make us slaves. We sacrifice our liberty so that, ultimately, we can be truly free. — Lesley Livingston

Rather, risk is a perception in each investor's mind that results from analysis of the probability and amount of potential loss from an investment. If an exploratory oil well proves to be a dry hole, it is called risky. If a bond defaults or a stock plunges in price, they are called risky. But if the well is a gusher, the bond matures on schedule, and the stock rallies strongly, can we say they weren't risky when the investment after it is concluded than was known when it was made. — Seth Klarman