Maughan Library Quotes & Sayings

But isn't it wrong to be motivated by reward? No, it isn't. If it were wrong, Christ wouldn't offer it to us a motivation. — Randy Alcorn

I saw that she was crying. Before I knew it, I was kissing her. Others on the platform were staring at us, but I didn't care about such things anymore. We were alive, she and I. And all we had to think about was continuing to live. — Haruki Murakami

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic. — Benjamin Jowett

She wondered how to mourn the death of a son who wasn't dead. And yet the loss of separation made that easy. The idea of pain made pain, where she knew none could possibly truly exist. — Juliet Castle

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all. — C.S. Lewis

He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams. — Virginia Woolf

An entrepreneur is someone who sees a gain from trade where others see a tradeoff. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism. — Zack Wamp

Jace: "I guess we better move the trash. We can start with the Dumpster," looking unenthusiastic.
Clary: "You'd rather face a ravening horde of demons, wouldn't you?"
Jace: "At least they wouldn't be crawling with maggots. Well, not most of them, anyway. There was this one demon, once, that I tracked down to the sewers under Grand Central
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Clary: "Don't. I'm not really in the mood right now."
Jace: "That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me."
Clary: "Stick with me and it won't be the last. — Cassandra Clare

The best time to laugh is anytime you can. — Linda Ellerbee

You will not address me as if I'm not even here - unless you want to join Lucius in the dungeons. And then we'll see how long you last without blood, because you are two hundred years older and nowhere near as strong as my husband. — Beth Fantaskey

One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine. — Ian McKellen