Modifier 51 Quotes & Sayings

My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I have skulked up there and wasted eight precious years of my life! The very day I was set free, I should have gone forth into the world - out into the steel-hard, dreamless world of reality! I should have begun at the bottom and swung myself up to the heights anew - higher than ever before - in spite of all that lay between. — Henrik Ibsen

A battle? What battle? Jasmira shrieked. — A.O. Peart

We could say we were young and stupid, but that excuse only lasts so long before you realize that you were selfish and just really big assholes." I — Penelope Douglas

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel. — Margaret Atwood

I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs. — Jean Kerr

My kindness is my weakness but my weakness is my biggest strength. — Behdad Sami

Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt, but we need the science base; we need the correct science base. — Ahmed Zewail

In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous. — Patrick Dempsey

I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the planet more merciless than a teenage girl once she's decided she dislikes you. — Meg Cabot

We must worship in truth. Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God. "The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth" (Psm. 145:18). Worship that is not based on God's Word is but an emotional encounter with oneself. — Erwin W. Lutzer

If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court? — Anne Hutchinson

Truth.
It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life.
Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling. — Kathryn Stockett

A man appeared on the corner the cat had been watching, appeared so suddenly and silently you'd have thought he'd just popped out of the ground. The cat's tail twitched and its eyes narrowed. Nothing like this man had ever been seen on Privet Drive. He was tall, thin, and very old, judging by the silver of his hair and beard, which were both long enough to tuck into his belt. He was wearing long robes, a purple — J.K. Rowling

Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God. — Horace Greeley