Ottosource Quotes & Sayings

So, schools will say they have a 'zero tolerance' for bullying, but they really don't want to deal with anything. — Nancy Jo Sales

But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil. — Lord Byron

Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions. — Heinrich Heine

Without warning, I heard the heavy door behind me creak slowly open upon its rusted hinges. — H.P. Lovecraft

She recognized in Kelsey the nationalism of liberal Americans who copiously criticized America but did not like you to do so; they expected you to be silent and grateful, and always reminded you of how much better than wherever you had come from America was. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Charles Wyly was born Oct 13, 1933, in Lake Providence, La., and for a period lived with his family in a shack without electricity or plumbing. — Charles Duhigg

It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species. — Henry Fielding

When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have. — Winston Churchill

I'll put it on my table where I keep my drawings, Hassan said.
His saying that made me kind of sad. Sad for who Hassan was, where he lived. For how he'd accepted the fact that he'd grow old in that mud shack in the yard, the way his father had. — Khaled Hosseini

Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse. — John Crowley