Repeals Def Quotes & Sayings

I'm sorry, Mr. Whiteleaf. I'm not going to let a monster eat me for minimum wage. — A. Lee Martinez

You wouldn't replace your carpet at home if you still had a hole in the roof ... We're talking about any time you start waving a carrot such as American citizenship without securing the borders, that number [of undocumented immigrants] that we have today I believe will double or triple. — Lou Barletta

He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God. — Benjamin Whichcote

At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends. — Cara Delevingne

When your world falls apart and everything's ruined, you lose part of yourself. Not all, inconveniently. One half, the best half, dies. The other half lives. — Sophie Hannah

Emotional truth is the reward of digging deeply enough to find the truth about how one really feels, but in order to convey this truth with any force, or artistry, one needs to 'create' a form of expression, and this form determines its own "genuine information". — Philip Schultz

If you're happy in a dream, does that count? — Arundhati Roy

When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict. — Stephen Sondheim

Has she really come home? For two minutes she can feel the sand beneath her shoes along with a few pieces of flint and pebbles made of quartz or granite; then she takes off her shoes forever and goes to stand on the board to be shot.
..and finally, last of all, the name of the girl herself is taken back, the name no one will ever again call her by. — Jenny Erpenbeck

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand - passive resistance and open displays of contempt. — Kurt Vonnegut

After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as weird and remote from our own as Middle Earth or Narnia, yet oddly familiar. — Ysabeau S. Wilce

Frowning, she looked up. "You can't want to ravish me every time we meet."
Oh, yes, he could. Demon gritted his teeth ... — Stephanie Laurens

By your choice dwell you now in the world which you have created. What you hold in your heart shall be true, and what you most admire, that shall you become. — Richard Bach

Uneasy lies the head that craves the crown. — Howard E. Koch

His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade. — Mickey Mantle