Scanes And Routh Quotes & Sayings

Take all the fullness out of this skirt," they say. "Ok," we say, "but you'll feel awfully silly in it next year." "What do I care about next year?" they answer. "Any dress which isn't in style for at least three years isn't any good to begin with," we say. — Elizabeth Hawes

So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Dobie was so well written and so ahead of its time. — Dwayne Hickman

Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again. — Aidan Chambers

Weekends are for working. — David Weiden

You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly. — Rumi

Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin.
The only vengeance worth having on sin
is to make the sinner himself its executioner. — George MacDonald

If you are trying to please, how do you take responsibility for your own needs? How do you even know what your own needs are? What do you have to cut off in yourself in order to please others? I think the act of pleasing makes everything murky. We lose track of ourselves. We stop uttering declaratory sentences. We stop directing our lives. We wait to be rescued. We forget what we know. We make everything okay rather than real. — Eve Ensler

The troop whose captain is (apparently) not managing it, but whose girls manage themselves under the Scout laws, is the ideal troop. — Girl Scouts Of The U.S.A.

The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books that celebrate women's heroic virtues and values: courage, honor, determination and a belief in the healing power of love. — Jayne Ann Krentz

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do. — Stephen King

interactions were valuable ways of accumulating social capital. — Juliana Barbassa

If you think you would need to change the world, think of your death and the size of your casket before starting to believe in your thoughts or else you are a loser. — Auliq Ice

This shouldn't be possible," he whispered, "but somehow, it's happening. You're something special to me, and I can only hope that I'm something special to you. — Samantha Young

So we both pray this child is a female and that she grows to love and cherish you as we do, that this is the one who will be your other half.
Gregori stirred as if to say something.
Do not say anything! Mikhail hissed in the healer's head. She believes the child will have a choice.
Gregori bowed his head mentally to Mikhail. If Mikhail chose to allow his wife the comforting if false thought that the female child would have a choice in such a matter, then so be it. — Christine Feehan