Maugre Define Quotes & Sayings

There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Outside the station of Santa Maria Novella Isabella has to stand aside while a line of prisoners are marched into the terminus by armed Fascist guards. They pass within touching distance of her, carrying bags and bundles. There are old people and some children too. They all seem swamped by their clothes, disembodied by them somehow. Then she catches the eye of Ezra, a young Jewish man who once worked in the arts material shop where she buys most of her pigments and brushes. He is almost at the back of the line. The veins are high and urgent on his hand. His trousers are held up with a dirty piece of string. His cobalt blue eyes hold hers for the barest beat of a moment but some essence of his being conveys itself to her and her blood quickens in sympathy for him. She has the feeling of looking into the eyes of a ghost. — Glenn Haybittle

Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world. — Samuel P. Huntington

The walls are cracked and water runs upon them within threads without sound, black and glistening as blood. — Ayn Rand

Languor is a more efficient method of control. — Margaret Atwood

Harsha Bhogle is always politically correct and keeps praising Indian players, but he doesn't extend the same courtesy to Ganguly. Sarcasm is Bhogle's favourite weapon. — Saptarshi Sarkar

The two plants had a gentleman's agreement going, like the railroad companies and the real-estate speculators in the old days, whereby they progressed together up the hill and into the yard. — Nicholson Baker

Be bold in mind, in spirit and in faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To become a token woman
whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters
is to become something less than a mansince men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest. — Adrienne Rich

Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety. — Plato

Duke came to us. They volunteered to come to us and made a number of suggestions to some people on my staff. I don't know how I would characterize them, but there have been some discussions going back and forth between Duke and members of my staff. — Gray Davis

There are times when it is conservative to be a revolutionary, when the world must be turned on its head in order to be stood on its feet. — Christopher Hitchens

Goody Two-shoes Evie Greene got herself pickled, for true. If I'd known you were such a juvenile delinquent, I might've asked for a new history podna."
"Juvenile delinquent? Hmm. Aren't your initials J.D.? If the shoe fits ... — Kresley Cole