Somervilles Quotes & Sayings

[Incomplete people] are complicated and sensitive and messy in their reactions — Lysa TerKeurst

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed. — Jean De La Bruyere

I wanted you to watch, so I stomped around the room to wake you before I got in the shower. Didn't you wonder why the light was on? It wasn't for me, I can see in the dark. And then I kept the water cold so the glass wouldn't fog. — Jeaniene Frost

Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form. — Merce Cunningham

It won't be long,' said Philippa cheerfully, her mother's ring in her voice. 'You know what Bess says. There's nothing in this world a drop of aqua-vitae in a sheep's bladder won't cure. Stop the Somervilles with a knife! It needs artillery.' And she blew her nose hard. — Dorothy Dunnett

I can't stop thinking about cutting myself up. Visual bruises can be covered with make-up, but down to the core, I'm all bruises. — Majandra Delfino

Only common mortals like the Somervilles have good old rotten hates, dear,' said her mother. 'Sir Graham manages to love everybody and wouldn't know what you're talking about. Have a bun.'

'He doesn't love the Turks,' said Philippa. 'He kills them.'

'That isn't hate,' said Kate Somerville. 'That's simply hoeing among one's principles to keep them healthy and neat. I'm sure he would tell you he bears them no personal grudge; and they think they're going to Paradise anyway, so it does everyone good. — Dorothy Dunnett

Cynical, hell. I'm a healthy old man with a constitutional mistrust of paternalism and government in large doses. — Harper Lee

The journey to a thousand stars is not too far a journey in the quest to have true love abiding in a pure heart. — C. JoyBell C.

Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage. — Luis Fernando Verissimo