Martien Mulder Quotes & Sayings

There was something in his manner of seduction, no show of desire at all; what he offered was a transaction, and again he showed no disappointment when reflexively and without hesitation I said no to him. It was the answer I had always given to such proposals (which are inevitable in the places I frequent), not out of any moral conviction but out of pride, a pride that had weakened in recent years, as I realized I was being shifted by the passage of time from one category of erotic object to another. — Garth Greenwell

You know I like that fight and I'm confident of walking away with two super-middleweight titles — Jeff Lacy

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. But it is also in terror, because those values are threatened, and it is not certain whether they will triumph in this world, and of course music is a missionary effort to colonise earth for imperialistic heaven. — Rebecca West

Constantine saw with his own eyes the trophy of a cross of light in the heavens, above the sun, and bearing this inscription: conquer by this. At the sight, he himself was struck with amazement and his whole army also. — Eusebius

But men inspired by prophecy will attempt any foolishness in the knowledge that the fates have ordained their victory. — Bernard Cornwell

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools — John Dewey

The world is moving ahead on its own without my being aware of it, as if we're playing a game in which everybody else can move only when I have my eyes closed. — Haruki Murakami

I don't waste time. I move. I finish things. I don't try and do things to the nth degree. I know what's important and what's not. I've really learned that. That's a judgement I've learned, what really matters. — Gail Kelly

Your personal life is something that's gonna last forever, and your career in stage, film, television, whatever, is not necessarily going to do that, so to keep the two separate's a very good thing. — Lucy Griffiths