Renowned Def Quotes & Sayings

warriors - be they human, demoness, siren, changeling or any brave creature from the Lore - knew to pray for it as they died. Thus the Valkyrie were born. — Kresley Cole

Jemma, I know that we have known each other for only a few short weeks, but I feel as if I have known you all my life. This courtship may have been arranged at the beginning, but my love for you is truer than ever. So, I ask you, my love, as a man would rightly ask the woman he wishes to be his wife, if you will marry me. Don't say yes because of the original arrangement, say yes because you want to. I will love you forever Jemma Girard, and I would never force you to stay in an arrangement you did not want. If you wish it, we can eliminate the plans of marriage. I stood there in a breathless shock, staring at this wonderful and handsome young man who loved me enough to let me go. — Katlyn Charlesworth

We lived in a neighborhood that was too rich for us. When I was young, I had to deliver groceries to the homes of the kids I went to school with. I had to go to the back doors to make the deliveries. It was embarrassing. That was one thing out of a hundred. — Rodney Dangerfield

May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways — Heraclitus

English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill. — Leonard Cohen

The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious. — James Joyce

Gordon Brown now bestrides politics and the media like the Colossus of Dunfermline. Whatever happened to Tony Blair? — Austin Mitchell

To be seduced? Why, that was a matter of leaning back in one's chair, sipping one's wine, and responding to a query with the very first thought that has popped into one's head. And — Amor Towles

All that Christ did and suffered would have been necessary had only one human soul been the object of redemption; and nothing different and nothing more would have been required had every child of Adam been saved through his blood. — Charles Hodge

What you had to have is usually tabulated as follows: luck; the ability to adapt, immediately and radically; a talent for inconspicuousness; solidarity with another individual or with a group; the preservation of decency ("the people who had no tenets to live by - of whatever nature - generally succumbed" no matter how ruthlessly they struggled); the constantly nurtured conviction of innocence (an essential repeatedly emphasised by Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago); immunity to despair; and, again, luck. — Martin Amis

You have to believe in magic to see it. — Leah Blundell

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end. — Oliver Goldsmith

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing. — Lynda Barry

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic. — Barry Eichengreen

We may not understand why certain things occur in our lives, but we understand who to run to when they do. — Dillon Burroughs