Secretaire Desk Quotes & Sayings

Shred all that, then take the pieces to the incinerator at the end of the hall for burning. I like to be thorough. — Rachel Caine

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late. — Daniel Defoe

When you get a man, you have to nurture him. Treat him like a king. If you put that little work in in the beginning, it pays off. — Tameka Cottle

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money. — Richard J. Needham

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War. — Kenzaburo Oe

We need to discover once again that we have something to die for, for it is only when we have something to die for that we have something to live for. — Dwight Longenecker

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later. — Toni Morrison

Night goes away, a black bull
body heavy with mourning and fear and mystery
it has been bellowing horribly, monstrously,
in genuine fear of all the dead;
and day arrives, a young child
who wants trust, and love, and jokes,
a child who somewhere
far away, in secret places
where what ends meets what is starting,
has been playing a moment
on some meadow or other
of light and darkness
with the bull who is running away ... — Juan Ramon Jimenez

most prized of all, her secretaire, a Napoleon III desk, full of nooks and crannies and pigeonholes, — Edna O'Brien