Oilskin Duster Quotes & Sayings

My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention. — Carol Leifer

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure. — Soichiro Honda

You are the two halves of a whole. You must be different, like light and shadow- he brings you caution to temper your recklessness, and you bring him recklessness to temper his caution. Without each other you would not function as well as you do. That is what parabatai means. — Cassandra Clare

Pray, and let God worry. — Martin Luther

You and I both know that Lord Stoneville sees me only as a means to an end."
"That's not true," Freddy said earnestly. "I've seen how he looks at you. It's how I look at the last bit of bacon on the serving plate. He likes you."
"Don't be absurd."
"And you like him, too."
She let out a shuddering breath. "I like Nathan."
"But if Mr. Pinter doesn't find Nathan-"
"Then we'll go home and hope Nathan doesn't take too long in returning."
"You could marry Lord Stoneville," Freddy said. — Sabrina Jeffries

But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It felt like anything else permanent that has gone missing; a lost tooth, a severed leg. You might know better, but that doesn't keep your tongue from poling at the hole in your gum, or your phantom limb from aching. — Jodi Picoult

Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it? — S.M. Stirling

The world class purposely ignores the small thinking, ego-based personality — Steve Siebold

What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? — H.L. Mencken

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form. — Jeffrey Kluger