Recaltricant Quotes & Sayings

The character of Rocky was built on the idea that he was chosen to do something. That's why the first image in Rocky is the picture of Christ. — Sylvester Stallone

He fights for his life but still remains everybody's friend. He "knows" whom to corrupt, whom to avoid, whose compassion to arouse, whom to resist. — Primo Levi

She was like a disease that came along every few years, contaminating everyone in her path. — Tarryn Fisher

My dear!" I remonstrated, in allusion to the epithet and the vigorous emphasis Miss Jellyby set upon it. "Your duty as a child - " "Oh! Don't talk of duty as a child, Miss Summerson; where's Ma's duty as a parent? All made over to the public and Africa, I suppose! Then let the public and Africa show duty as a child; it's much more their affair than mine. You — Charles Dickens

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity. — Barbara Kingsolver

Whatever is unknown is magnified. — Tacitus

Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of September 11 and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could — Tony Blair

Girls are always talking about electricity in their romance, but none are too happy to actually be electrocuted, apparently. Bloody confusing, is what it is. — Tahereh Mafi

What the deuce is to do now? — Charlotte Bronte

Pretending",' she looked at the garden, 'is not the truth.'
'But you said two true things, right ? One, you hate this girl. Two, you want her to feel better. If you decide that the wanting truth's more important than the hating truth, just tell her you've forgiven her, even if you haven't. At least she'd feel better. Maybe that'd make you feel better too.'
Madame Crommelynck studied her hands, moodily, both sides. 'Sophistry', she pronounced.
I'm not sure what 'sophistry' means so I kept shtum. — David Mitchell

He liked cock, this intellectual! — Laurent Binet

I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either. — William Goldman

Category. A church doesn't need to pray about whether it should pray. It doesn't need to pray about whether it should serve. It doesn't need to pray about whether it should evangelize. — Erwin Raphael McManus

I was 'normal' once; it lasted about five minutes. — Marla Buchanan

Grandfather was about sixty, a lean active man who still rode his bicycle at great speed. — Ruskin Bond