Periodical Database Quotes & Sayings

A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit. — Lloyd Paul Stryker

Superstition and sensation are always so much more appealing than truth and rationality. The — Diana Gabaldon

Sometimes love didn't spring up on you in a moment of blinding clarity. Sometimes it crept up on you on a Tuesday night while you were standing at the sink doing dishes, the feeling settling into your soul in a way that made it too heavy to ignore anymore. — Jessica Gadziala

Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle,
Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel ... and staying humble. — Pete Rock

The day comes in the life of every single man living alone when he must give a dinner party, however unpretentious, and that day had now arrived for Rupert Stonebird. — Barbara Pym

Last time I'd made a trek to Zane's hotel room, we'd been at NerdCon, and I'd been fueled by pride and anger and desire. Now, all I felt was shame and guilt. And love. In — Megan Erickson

Did a bloody Griever come out and ask for a snog? — James Dashner

Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out. — Dougray Scott

Lord, I am willing
To receive what You give.
To lack what You withhold.
To relinquish what You take,
To suffer what You inflict,
To be what you require. — Jerry Bridges

But man is an odd, sad creature as yet, intent on pilfering the earth, and heedless of the growths within himself. He cannot be bored about psychology. He leaves it to the specialist, which is as if he should leave his dinner to be eaten by a steam-engine. He cannot be bothered to digest his own soul. — E. M. Forster

I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job. — Douglas Leone

He wasn't, I realized when I read those scenes concerning Blair and myself, close to any of us
except of course to Blair, and really not even to her. He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all. But there was no point in being angry with him. — Bret Easton Ellis

Homeowners' Association: the means whereby people who own homes are able to transfer their rights to the neighborhood control freaks. — Ron Brackin

Sternly she tried to frown the unseemly sensation down. Burgeon, indeed. She had heard of dried staffs, pieces of mere dead wood, suddenly putting forth fresh leaves, but only in legend. She was not in legend. She knew perfectly what was due to herself. Dignity demanded that she should have nothing to do with fresh leaves at her age; and yet there it was
the feeling that presently, that at any moment now, she might crop out all green. — Elizabeth Von Arnim