Payns Stationery Quotes & Sayings

Edith's clothes were flung in disarray on the floor beside the bed, the covers of which had been thrown back carelessly; she lay naked and glistening under the light on the white unwrinkled sheet. Her body was lax and wanton in its naked sprawl, and it shone like pale gold. William came nearer the bed. She was fast asleep, but in a trick of the light her slightly opened mouth seemed to shape the soundless words of passion and love. He stood looking at her for a long time. He felt a distant pity and reluctant friendship and familiar respect; and he felt also a weary sadness, for he knew that he would never again be moved as he had once been moved by her presence. The sadness lessened, and he covered her gently, turned out the light, and got in bed beside her. — John Edward Williams

You don't play villains like they are villains. You play them like you know exactly where they are coming from. Which hopefully you do. — Mark Margolis

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical. — Marc Bloch

I'm measuring my actions against that inner voice that for me at least is audible, is active, it tells me where I think I'm on track and where I think I'm off track. — Barack Obama

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know. — Agatha Christie

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To have found God is not an end but in itself a beginning. — Franz Rosenzweig

Our leaders know we're turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up and realize what's happened. — Matt Taibbi

One thing I've never been accused of is slowly coming into something. I always go full on (and ask) "Now how do we make this work?" — Drew Waters

I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the United States. — Joschka Fischer

Art will not tolerate a mistress. — Jon Luvelli

We're literal people, you and me. Whatever the most obvious interpretation is, that's our truth. — Brenna Yovanoff

I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself. — Derek Fisher