P3453 Quotes & Sayings

There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil. — Dorothy Parker

His hands tightened on her shoulders as the truth washed over him. My God, she really had told him yes.
He opened his mouth to ask if she was certain then didn't. If he did, she might change her mind, and he had no intention of giving her that opportunity. Underneath his hands, her shoulders quivered. She raised her gaze to him again, and his heart plunged into the depths. She had her lower lip trapped between her teeth, and her eyes were tormented pools of blue green. His heart broke just looking at her.
She was not in love with him. He knew that. Her acceptance of him had nothing to do with the sort of desperate longing he had for her. Not that he hadn't known that the first time he proposed to her, but to have her say yes out of despair added an edge of pain to his euphoria. He knew she wasn't indifferent to him, after all, and for the moment, that sufficed to keep the hurt at arm's
length. — Carolyn Jewel

God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it. — Derwin L. Gray

Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother! ... — Swami Vivekananda

If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls.
Czechoslovakian foreign minister Jan Masaryk to Lord Halifax as reaction to announcement of allies' betrayal in 1938. — Jan Masaryk

I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing ... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry. — J.K. Rowling

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. — Kin Hubbard

probability is the very guide of life — Leonard Mlodinow