Mrs Smith In Persuasion Quotes & Sayings

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat. — Huston Smith

Roosevelt pulled a cigar from his pocket and lit it. "How can you smoke at a time like this?" asked the captain. His eyes were aimed up at the falling flames.

"Hell, if I'm going to die, it's going to be doing something I enjoy. And since none of you are of the female persuasion, it's the cigar."

"At this point the fall would probably just pulverize our legs. If we could avoid cardiac arrest, we'd live. As invalids of course," replied Smith.

"Don't ruin my cigar, Schmitty. — Andrew Mayne

We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy. — William Graham Sumner

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim. — Jami Attenberg

We always have a choice. — Tony Robbins

It was now packed inside the beaded bag, which, Harry was impressed to learn, Hermione had protected from the Snatchers by the simple expedient of stuffing it down her sock. — J.K. Rowling

Rummy is the best-known of all card games played in the United States. Its popularity is due partly to the fact that it is so simple. Any person with a knowledge of the basic game can easily learn any form of it. — Albert H. Morehead

The power of the artform is stronger than stone, the poet says, and chooses the sonnet, a form concerned with argument and persuasion, to say so. This sonnet, he says, will last longer than any gravestone-and you'll be made shinier, brighter, by it. In this form it will-and therefore you will-avoid destruction by war, history, time generally; it'll even keep you alive after death; in fact it'll form a place for you to live, not die, where you'll be seen in the eyes of and the context of this love right to the end of time. — Ali Smith

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. — Karen Marie Moning

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end. — Joyce Carol Oates

Midwest Radio would like to extend their sympathies to the families and loved ones of the dead — Mike McCormack

Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry. — Anonymous

Maybe someday we'll see each other again, Charlie. For real I mean. Until then, save me a seat, okay?
-Solo — Trish Doller

There is no doubt that people are in the long run what the government make out of them . . . ," Adams read in Rousseau. "The government ought to be what the people make it," he wrote in response. At — David McCullough