Regnal Quotes & Sayings

Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you may win Southern independence, but I doubt it. The North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche. — Sam Houston

There were days when she'd open her eyes and be him for six hours in a row; she knew all his secrets and nothing he had done seemed wrong to her, she knew how it was, how things had been, she was there. There were days when he touched the tip of her nose and it was enough, a miracle of plenty.
But who finds happiness interesting? — Helen Oyeyemi

I was also a congressman. I had decided to run for office and had become a congressman with Queen Latifah. — Rob Reiner

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred. — Thomas Jefferson

At least I'm going into the job with clean hands. — Pete Rozelle

Her words had often been — Angela Marsons

JEM: Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?
WILL: They don't expect it.
JEM: Of course they don't. They know what happens when one of us consumes vampire blood. They probably expect you to have more sense.
WILL: That expectation never seems to serve them very well, does it?
JEM: It hardly serves you, either. — Cassandra Clare

I think 'write what you know' is the single worst piece of writing advice. Instead, write what you're really interested in. Write what is going to keep you awake at night; write what you don't understand; write to figure something out. Good novels are journeys into the unknown, for their authors as well as their readers. — Toni Jordan

The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse to do good and make things better. — Kenneth E. Boulding

I don't believe in writing people off. — Rico Love

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance. — Charles Kingsley

There's not a whole lot of advantage for a company to be public. — Dave Goldberg

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned. — Aisha Tyler