Mildred Elley Student Portal Quotes & Sayings

Oh! very well," exclaimed Miss Bates, "then I need not be uneasy. 'Three things very dull indeed.' That will just do for me, you know. I shall be sure to say three dull things as soon as ever I open my mouth, shan't I? - (looking round with the most good-humoured dependence on every body's assent) - Do not you all think I shall?"
Emma could not resist.
"Ah! ma'am, but there may be a difficulty. Pardon me - but you will be limited as to number - only three at once."
Miss Bates, deceived by the mock ceremony of her manner, did not immediately catch her meaning; but, when it burst on her, it could not anger, though a slight blush shewed that it could pain her. — Jane Austen

If there is no snake at your feet, do not lift rocks at the side of the road. — Andre Dubus III

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness. — Jonathan Swift

Talent means energy and persistence and nothing more! — Heinrich Schliemann

But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of Outer Mongolia, I knew my name was written there too. Fly fishing was going to be my version of my father's sport, my nod to my Scottish ancestors and to my self, and to the fish crazed part of America I had claimed as my own. — Jessica Maxwell

I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to come with me where I want her to go. — Laurie Foos

It was a clear, moonlit night a little after the tenth of the Eighth Month. Her Majesty, who was residing in the Empress's Office, sat by the edge of the veranda while Ukon no Naishi played the flute for her. The other ladies in attendance sat together, talking and laughing; but I stayed by myself, leaning against one of the pillars between the main hall and the veranda.
'Why so silent?' said Her Majesty. 'Say something. It is sad when you do not speak.'
'I am gazing at the autumn moon,' I replied.
'Ah yes,' she remarked. 'That is just what you should have said. — Sei Shonagon

Oh, my gosh, thirty-eight hundred children are going to die tomorrow. What am I going to do to actually save some of them? — Marjorie Dannenfelser

There was always something in me to catch fire, in this heap of straw that I have been. — Franz Kafka

I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power. — Albert Brooks

Whatever your job, it is important if it is what God wants you to do. — Henry Jacobsen

I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it. — Harold Ramis

Mony refused looseth its brightnesse. — George Herbert

God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There should be no fear in love. — Martin O'Malley