Relatif Aux Quotes & Sayings

Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some alloy of fear. — Marguerite Yourcenar

...there can't be two geniuses in the same bed. — Ridley Pearson

The mirrors in your mind can reflect the best of yourself, not the worst of someone else. — Hannibal

Therefore does the world love the Swedes, because in the midst of their woes they can draw it all to their bosom and be so galant that they shine a long way away. — Isak Dinesen

I said a lot of true things, the most jarring ones I could, because if you say honest things harshly people look at them. And not at you. — E. Jade Lomax

Big deal, so he scored. The last time I saw someone dance like that I had to pay her $20 and have my pants dry cleaned the next day. — Dennis Miller

Don't you think company is more precious than all these objects? — Joanne Owen

Luckily, the world is absolutely full of interesting things to do. Only lack of imagination, or lack of energy, stand in the way. Otherwise each of us could be a poet or musician, an inventor or explorer, an amateur scholar, scientist, artist, or collector. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

What he wanted was very near. It was typical of the monstrous, egregious, laughable irony which dominated his life that with every dragging lift of his arms, he should be saying over and over, 'Not yet.' — Dorothy Dunnett

Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at the lies arranged in their thousands row on row. He picked up one of the books and thumbed through the heavy bloated pages. He'd not have thought the value of the smallest thing predicated on a world to come. It surprised him. That the space which these things occupied was itself an expectation. — Cormac McCarthy

But that was last year," I protested as we walked through school on Tuesday, three days before
Halloween. "I'm serious, you know how people are. They forget about things."
"Oh, really?" Roux said, then turned and smiled at a brunette passing us. "Hey, Julia, what's up?
How are things?"
"Slut," Julia responded, and kept walking.
Roux just looked back at me knowingly. "You were saying? — Robin Benway

The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust by my uncle and my own father and courtier after courtier, I assure you I am unrivaled at pretending not to notice other people's glances. — Megan Whalen Turner

What happens if anger takes you over, Tessa? Who will you be then? What will be left of you? — Jenny Downham

Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity. — Thomas Merton

Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware
he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year. — Tim Burton