Manquement Quotes & Sayings

I texted Nightingale to let him know our change in disposition and then I picked up my Pliny, because nothing says stuck all alone in your flat like a Roman know-it-all — Ben Aaronovitch

What y'all ladies got to share? Hmmm, what you bitches got?"

Aunt Georgia sighed and squinted at the boy. She said, "The Lord loves a cheerful giver, but I'm just not in the mood."

The thug moved his hand from his crotch to his scalp, still scratching. "What in the hell's that supposed to mean?" Mrs. Cleveland raised and pumped her walking stick, which, it turned out, was a double-barreled shotgun.

"It means take one more step," she said, "and I'll blast you to hell, you ignorant-ass bastard. — Jabari Asim

Lion-hearted; her tremors braced with virtue, Philippa trotted on. — Dorothy Dunnett

You know, sometimes the right thing isn't the thing you think is right. It's the wrong thing you're afraid to think of. — Jude Watson

Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true. — Barbara Kingsolver

I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her. — Marc Chagall

But for a girl I think she ought to have lots of minor accomplishments and pass them on to her children. — F Scott Fitzgerald

How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them. — William Cowper

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. — Thomas Sowell