Sampion 7 Quotes & Sayings

I have always loved fantasy; I think probably stepping through the wardrobe with Lucy in C.S. Lewis's 'Narnia Chronicles' was my first exposure when I was really little. — Jacqueline Carey

The shepherd will deny the diseased lamb in fear of the flock. — Khalil Gibran

I never said that I was going to write a literary masterpiece. I just wanted to write something to make people feel something, hopefully in the nether regions. — Jennifer Lassalle Edwards

We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion. — Barack Obama

The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general. — Lev Grossman

Teaching is almost like an act of prayer for me. I feel that I am present at the intersection of people and ideas in a very holy way. There are not many places where successful adults can take a break from work or domestic issues and freely and safely explore their inner lives or global issues through an ethical lens. — Erica Brown

Your boyfriend's real fuckin' nice. What a cutie. I heart the fuck out of him. What a catch. — C.M. Stunich

Either we will spend our lives trying to take care of ourselves or we will let go and let God take care of us as we put our faith and trust in Him. — Joyce Meyer

I never knew anyone actually buy cakes when they were hot ... — Ruth Rendell

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be. — Nicholas Sparks

Partly for this reason Sir Thomas Gresham had recently built the Royal Exchange, the most fabulous commercial building of its day. (Gresham is traditionally associated with Gresham's law - that bad money drives out good - which he may or may not actually have formulated.) Modeled on the Bourse in Antwerp, the Exchange contained 150 small shops, making it one of the world's first shopping malls, but its primary purpose and virtue was that for the first time it allowed City merchants - some four thousand of them - to conduct their business indoors out of the rain. We may marvel that they waited so long to escape the English weather, but there we are. — Bill Bryson

There is nothin' like a dame. — Oscar Hammerstein II

I'm a woman in a man's job and I don't have the luxury of being an ass, — Joan Clarke

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary ... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. — Robert Jackson

To get change, you must first pay for it. — Timothy Joshua