Martinka Shaftsbury Quotes & Sayings

Definition of remorse: a mourning that is out of control and never ends, that can strike out of the bluest of skies, across the softest of snows. — Frank Delaney

Well if you were asking my personal opinion on that I think the answer can only be yes but it was missed. Much as I know I'm responsible for a lot of things, I can't wear any responsibility for that. — John Anderson

However few people can successfully demonstrate a principle in common ethics when their deliberation is festered with emotionalism. — Truman Capote

I must not get ahead of myself. If I do not narrate the events of my life with rigor and harmony, I will lose my way. — Isabel Allende

I circled among the narrow, San Franciscan streets of Mt. Adams until night fell, then dropped down St. Martin's to Paradrome and up to Ida, where I parked beneath an arching willow some three houses down from Tray Leach's home. I'd bought five styrofoam cups full of coffee at a little grocery on St. Regis, and, as I sat there watching the western sky go purple and then deep blue, I flipped the plastic lid off one of them. It was bad, bitter coffee. But I was feeling numb and disoriented after Cornell Street and I had to keep alert all night long. — Jonathan Valin

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do. — Asa Larsson

Life is beautiful, life is good. There should be signs and posters everywhere. — Marty Rubin

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know. — Louis L'Amour

I would never repudiate the fact that I am an Irishman — Ian Paisley

White Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur — Neal Shusterman

I hike every day with my dog, after the kids are off to school. I tend to get wrapped up in all the things that need to be done during the day, so I really am strict about setting that time aside for myself and not scheduling anything before eleven, so I can get my hike in. — Natalie Maines

So I fought the demon. I remember having it on the ground and kneeling on its neck, suffocating it. I realized I was killing it, and I just slightly let my knee up. The moment I did, it filled with life and I immediately sensed the venom and evil rise in it. I instantly dropped my knee, crushing its windpipe and killi...ng it. It gave me no choice. There was too much at stake. — Sophia Van Buren

I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday. — Tahar Rahim

I'm usually pretty good about meeting people. I try to remember they are human, too! — Ashley Madekwe