Maignan And Associates Quotes & Sayings

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. — Mary Shelley

As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

I held her head to my shoulder, rocking her, rubbing her back. Poor thing, I don't think she know where to put the whole world. — Shannon Hale

At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them; but when later on he saw that such actions were done by people of good position and that they did not regard them as wrong, he was able not exactly to regard them as right, but to forget about them entirely or not be at all troubled at remembering them. — Leo Tolstoy

Let them storm on. In fury let them rage!
Firm is this castle, and beneath its ruins
I will be buried ere I yield to them.
- Johanna, answer me! only be mine,
And I will shield thee 'gainst a world in arms. — Friedrich Schiller

On the question - which is more important for a story-plot or character. "It's a bit like asking whether your need your left or right leg. Maybe you have a preference, maybe one is stronger (for you) but really, you need both." (on Facebook) — Jeanette O'Hagan

Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors. — John Maynard Keynes