Merical Quotes & Sayings

You know," Ghastly said to Skulduggery, "for someone who hates plans, you've got an awful lot of them."
"Well, yes," Skulduggery replied, "but really, the likelihood of any of them actually working is extraordinarily slim. — Derek Landy

I would like to start by calling bullshit. — Rocco Landesman

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one. — Voltairine De Cleyre

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive. — Ambrose Bierce

Your Judgment is your own, and when you can look inward and see that you are changed and like what you see, then it is by your own hand that you are judged. — Jennifer Murgia

You can be innocent again. It's not true, what they say, that you can never get it back. You can. It's only that most folk cannot be bothered. — Catherynne M Valente

We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time. — David Dinkins

Beauty is a promise of happiness. — Alain De Botton

Increase in me that wisdom
Which discovers my truest interest,
Strengthen my resolution
To perform that which wisdom dictates. — Benjamin Franklin

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. — Helen Garner

Love is an ocean of emotion, No waters however can quench love nor can floods drown it — Julie Gamble

He'll have to get used to things being hard on him,' said Diana, her expression flinty. 'He's a Shadowhunter now. — Cassandra Clare

There is no virtue or vice in a transitive verb, everything depends on the direct object. 'I LOVE' could be virtuous or not - you could love ice cream, Jesus, child porn, my country, hurting people, the lust of the flesh. Love is not an automatic virtue. Hatred is not an automatic vice. What's the direct object? from Debate In The Age Of The Glitter-Bomb in The City, Fall 2013. — Douglas Wilson

I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss. — Charlie Day