Mary Dixon Kies Quotes & Sayings

Veterans are driven by the same frustrations that the public has with what is happening in Washington ... the fiscal irresponsibility and the financial crisis that our country is facing. — Pete Hegseth

A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life. — Anthony Marra

I took the medallion out and examined it again. To be perfectly honest, I don't think I'd have blinked if I'd seen the phrase One Ring to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them stenciled on one side. — Michael Angel

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature. — Leonardo Da Vinci

It was a brave old world. — Mark A. Rayner

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there. — Samantha Shannon

Wherever there is love, there the season transforms into spring! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

As he thought of it, a sharp pang of pain struck through him like a knife and made each delicate fibre of his nature quiver. — Oscar Wilde

I am naturally a thin person and I am 5'1 and putting on five or 10 pounds, that looks like a lot on me. — Nicole Richie

The dumbass?' Justin asked.
'Yes, you're not the only one in town. Who knew? — Kim Harrington

What can I give you? I--"

"You give me everything. — Charlotte Stein

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art. — Alanis Morissette

My caution kicks in when I encounter either one of two sorts of dramatic theories: those that claim to have found the secret of consciousness, and those that claim that the brain mechanisms for consciousness can never be found. — Patricia S. Churchland

One day they would decide to shoot him. You could not tell when it would happen, but a few seconds beforehand it should be possible to guess. It was always from behind, walking down a corridor. Ten seconds would be enough. In that time the world inside him could turn over. And then suddenly, without a word uttered, without a check in his step, without the changing of a line in his face - suddenly the camouflage would be down and bang! would go the batteries of his hatred. Hatred would fill him like an enormous roaring flame. And almost in the same instant bang! would go the bullet, too late, or too early. They would have blown his brain to pieces before they could reclaim it. The heretical thought would be unpunished, unrepented, out of their reach for ever. They would have blown a hole in their own perfection. To die hating them, that was freedom. — George Orwell

We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them. — Grover Norquist