Pebble Dashing Quotes & Sayings

On his back, Robert must have had time to see something beautiful, and not just the ugliness of a city street at the end of life. Even with the tremendous pain in his badly gutted belly he would have looked up beyond the fire escapes and the windows with their glittery trees and television glows, to the sky about the rooftops. A sky shimmery with the possibilities of the death; lights exaggerated, the heavens peeled back- a swirling haze of nebulae and comets - in some distant place, intimations of the new beginning into which he would soon journey — Oscar Hijuelos

Fear cannot exist when one is indifferent to life. — Evadne Price

Supposedly Kaidan's having a difficult time 'cause he can't say swear words in every sentence," Marna said with a smile. "He's determined to find signs for cursing or make some up himself. — Wendy Higgins

Either I'm ridiculously lucky or ridiculously unlucky, I just don't know which one. — Maija Haavisto

Paul used social media to ensure that his view prevailed, cementing the establishment of the Christian church as a religion open to all, and not just to Jews. Such is his influence that his letters are still read out in Christian churches all over the world today - a striking testament to the power of documents copied and distributed along social networks. — Tom Standage

The main reason we are held hostage by the most destructive technology on earth is simple: the complete lack of international resolve to ban nuclear weapons and banish them from the arsenals of the world. — C. G. Weeramantry

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise. — Jeanette Winterson

I gave you all my secrets, and you lost them all. You lost a lot of things.
But the treasure of it was in the giving, not the keeping. — Julio Alexi Genao

I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should. — Vince Vaughn

Go down," she said, "and tell them the MacKenzies are here. — Diana Gabaldon

He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate. — Margaret Truman

Once you've charmed a girl and prove how mature and independent you are, just ask her out. — Auliq Ice

It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer. — James Newman

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin