Overbid Quotes & Sayings

I saw that book in the lot and I needed a better look at it. I overbid terribly, but I needed to be certain I had it. Purely speculation, of course - nobody was allowed to get a good close look before bidding - but I thought there was a chance it was my book. The way Treasure Island is Marie's. But the moment I touched it I knew it wasn't mine. I knew it wasn't for selling, either, not at Churchwarry and Son. I can't explain it other than to say that it was begging to be given away. — Erika Swyler

All the logic in the world could not blunt the pain. Logic could not blunt her terrible sense of personal failure. Only time would do those things, and time would do an imperfect job. — Stephen King

The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done. — Edith Wharton

He writes a paragraph a day. A paragraph for Maya. It isn't much, but it's what he has left to give. He — Gabrielle Zevin

April light was unlike any other. It had a charming, optimistic unreliability like an overbid hand in poker. It gave a promise of spring that it wasn't sure it could keep. — Peter Hoeg

Our city must remember that in the ranks of its enemies, lie hid fellow citizens to be, and that it is well to bear with them until we can reach them in their profession of faith. — Augustine Of Hippo

I've always been pretty serious and introspective. — Donny Most

When you wear so many hats in society, you never know who you are. That's the beauty of it. Because once you find out who you are, you're screwed. — Jonathan Winters

Does Scripture forbid homosexual behavior? Of course it does. Jesus and his apostles taught that God's intention in marriage is for a man to leave his parents and join himself to one woman. — Michael Horton

We are deceived by the appearance of right. — Horace