Ncod Quotes & Sayings

Immature artists imitate.
Mature artists steal. — Lionel Trilling

What makes the great great? It is a sense of destiny. — Peter J. Daniels

The "Holy-crap-that's-a-lot-of-pink" zone would have been a more accurate description. — Rachel Hawkins

When our boulevards are lined with an infinity of bad eating houses filled with dead-faced people placed like mute beasts in their stalls; today, when one out of every three marriages ends in divorce ... It seems incredible that normal human beings not only tolerate the average American restaurant food, but actually prefer it to eating at home. The only possible explanation for such deliberate mass-poisoning, a kind of suicide of the spirit as well as the body, is that meals in the intimacy of a family dining-room or kitchen are unbearable. — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

Sighing my sadness into him, I gently kiss his lips. I will remember this moment for eternity. — Sarah Ann Walker

I am running away. They beat and ill-use me, Dick; and I am going to seek my fortune, some long way off. I don't know where. — Charles Dickens

I'm not going to be worshipped by some powerful, loaded, sword-wielding man who will change my life if I marry him. Because that is Aragon, son of Arathorn, and he doesn't exist. — Caitlin Moran

I saw the film 'Amadeus' from when I was five, which made me want to take piano lessons. — Mark Salling

Every person has something that concerns her ultimately and whatever it is, that object of ultimate concern is that person's God — Ronald H. Nash

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist. — Alistair Begg

A prince need take little account of conspiracies if the people are disposed in his favor. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Lush, evocative, inventive ... Livia Dare delights. Fans of Dara Joy will love [ In the Flesh ]! — Shayla Black

O my Savior ... teach me to pray; implant in me all the dispositions needful for the prayer of the Holy Spirit ... Of what use is my prayer if the Holy Spirit does not pray with me? Come, Holy Spirit, come to dwell and work with me! Take possession of my understanding and of my will; govern my actions not only at the moment of prayer but at every moment. — Jean Grou

Reaching out, I grab his hand and intertwine my fingers with his. And I move into his space until we're not even an inch from each other. Laying my forehead on his chest, I take a deep breath and feel his whole body relax, as if tension is rolling off his body in waves.
I was always the kid who loved the smell of gasoline.
His free hand comes up, and his fingers slip through my hair before his hand settles between my shoulder blades.
"Ben," I say into his shirt.
"Janelle," he whispers back, and I can feel his mouth against my hair. I can feel him smile. — Elizabeth Norris