Page 18 Quotes & Sayings

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive. — Samuel Johnson

It's emotional to be leaving 'Page Three.' It's been my life since I was 18, and I'm so grateful for the chances it gave me. — Peta Todd

She glanced again at the number of page views on her blog from last month: 18. Three for every post she'd written. Sean, her mother, and Izzy (her best friend), no doubt. Although Allyson wasn't sure if Izzy had read the last post, and her mother had commented that she'd read it twice, pointing out three grammatical errors. — Tricia Goyer

Her expression is from Page 18 of the Victoria's Secret catalogue. — David Foster Wallace

The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? The odds are stacked against us writers! — Ashwin Sanghi

corrected in text: Page 18: undertand replaced with understand — Andrew Murray

You can't," I murmured, swallowing the tears back with great effort. "You can't keep saving me, can't keep trying to. It's too late."
"No," he said. His heart was in his eyes, and it was ripping mine apart. "Not for you. Never. — Richelle Mead

Do you suppose I would learn you the way a scholar learns a book? That you are nothing to me but a collection of suppositions, to be stored in my memory and written down for verification? No, Margaret. I know you. — Courtney Milan

We have no intention of shipping another bloated OS and shoving it down the throats of our users. — Paul Maritz

The problem with hope, Anne finds through the years, is that it gets your hopes up. But hopelessness is worse. — Kelly Braffet

It was far easier to believe in unhappiness than in happiness. — Cornelia Funke

Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck. — Swami Vivekananda

I always believe, with any kind of hero, that you want to believe that their decision-making is right. That ultimately, I can trust what that guy's sense of right and wrong will be. Even in a vigilante movie, where you are going against the law by definition, you still want to agree with the fact that your character is breaking the law. — Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

Just as ceremonial fasting was a legitimate means for getting God's attention (Mt 6:16-18; Ac 13:2-3; 14:23), the casting of lots was a legitimate means for inviting God to intercede on a matter. (Pr 18:18) It was not expected that God should intervene every time (1Sam 28:6), but the ceremonial casting of lots was an invitation for God to participate in the final decision. (page 21) — Michael Ben Zehabe

She says sometimes you have to scream out emotions; if you don't, they'll fester. — Jenny Han

... la kuvunda halian ubani. There is no incense for something rotting. And that is the condition of the world. This I know. — Giles Foden

Well, all speaking is difficult, whether peril attends it or not. Sometimes peril to the body, sometimes a more intimate, miniature, invisible peril to the soul. When to speak at all is a betrayal of something, perhaps a something not even identified, hiding inside the chambers of the body like a scared refugee in a site of war. — Sebastian Barry

We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take the idea of dying, unable to sit still. — Lewis Thomas

Seen something?" asked Nightingale, making me jump. "Jesus Christ," I said. "Not on this river," said Nightingale. "Not even Blake thought that was possible." We — Ben Aaronovitch

We were entwined so tightly that I was afraid to breathe, lest she move at all. — Dave Eggers

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human. — Jeffrey Kluger

People assume when you're swimming in a river you are supposed to know which way you are going, and I guess some of the time that is true, but there are certain currents that are very strong, and it's when we are in those currents we need somebody to come along, pull us out, and guide us in a safer direction. (page 18) — Donald Miller

Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

You're in fine temper," Raffin said.
"Your hair is blue," she snapped back. — Kristin Cashore

As rich as you think some of us are, for every $18.99 CD you buy, the artist usually sees a toonie or so. Pay your producer out of that. Then your manager. Then split it five ways among your band mates. Now don't act surprised when you see the drummer of a platinum-selling Canadian rock band behind the drive- thru window at Tim Hortons — Steven Page

{And as Mousa said to his page, "I'll not give until I reach the junction of the two seas, though I march on for ages"} Chapter 18 verse 60 — Qur'an

And out of nowhere, I think: So this is how it feels to stand at the edge of a canyon. — Ally Condie