Slubslingers Quotes & Sayings

Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice. — Sallust

The sun is still there ... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again. — Elizabeth Goudge

No soft-skinned, lace-covered, dandified profligate would ever take this house and make it his.
Ever. — Karen Hawkins

Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with — Jane Austen

I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wrong choices. — Atom Egoyan

It was not coincidental that we chose what's left If the universe has a will I think we are part of it Tender and precious How many times have I searched for something Found and lost it Since then? — Ayumi Hamasaki

I'm not running to manage the decline of this great country. I'm running to make real changes. — Bobby Jindal

Algeria is not breaking up. — Ahmed Ben Bella

When tended the right way, beauty multiplies. — Shannon Wiersbitzky

And that's that as you get older, you lose things, things you don't necessarily want to lose. — Meg Cabot

Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious. — E.L. James

Words cannot explain the bruise that festers into a river that runs deep filled with pain n sorrows which only the visible can cure — A.N. Knight

As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the island dead, once they set foot on it. But no one expected to be one of these. Still it was an awesome thought and as the first contingents came struggling up on deck in full gear to form up, all eyes instinctively sought out immediately this island where they were to be put, and left, and which might possibly turn out to be a friend's grave. — James Jones

The scene [Bruegel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'] is filled with a vast field, and a cow and a farmer plowing. In the left-hand corner is a tiny ocean the size of a palm, and there, I can barely make it out, the two legs of a man who fell headlong into the sea. This is called the Fall of Icarus. Compared to everyday life, the fall of an idealist who flew too high with candle-wax wings is an unremarkable tragedy. — Hwang Sok-yong