Smaragdina Quotes & Sayings

A ridiculous-looking little man. The sort of little man one could never take seriously. — Agatha Christie

[J]uvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtue
indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge and duty and embraces it more than the self-love he was born with. — Robert A. Heinlein

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it. — Thomas Jefferson

Smile. It instantly lifts the face, and it just lights up the room. — Christie Brinkley

I want you to listen to me you seem to be under the misconception that there is something wrong with you, that there is nothing special about you. There is nobody else in the whole world that I would rather be with. I could look at you for hours an never get sick of it. I could spend ever second of everday in your presence and I would die a happy man. You belong with me. — Tiffany King

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. — Joni Mitchell

With whom," Logan corrects from his booth making me want to give him a big grammar Nazi high five. — Sherry D. Ficklin

Jefferson, incidentally, was also a great adventurer with foods. Among his many other accomplishments, he was the first person in America to slice potatoes lengthwise and fry them. So as well as being the author of the Declaration of Independence, he was also the father of the American French fry. — Bill Bryson

Witches married outside their species all the time, especially before the Turn. There were perfectly acceptable options: adoption, artificial insemination, borrowing your best friend's boyfriend for a night. Issues of what was morally right and wrong tended not to matter when you found yourself in love with a man you couldn't tell you weren't human. It sort of went with the whole hiding-among-humans-for-the-last-five-thousand-years thing. — Kim Harrison

We were never short on passion. We couldn't keep our hands off of each other. Adrenaline raced over the fatigue that had settled into my bones after another sleepless night. I could fuck the woman until I was blind, and it wouldn't be enough. She'd promised me a lifetime, and I had every intention of loving her well every day this life would give me. — Meredith Wild

I know that the World is a terrible place, filled with wild animals and evil men and wicked woman. — Pete Hautman

I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers. — Janet Echelman

If you take good care of the present, there is no need to worry about the future. — Thich Nhat Hanh