Stackpole Electronics Quotes & Sayings

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight. — Daniel Boone

Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one which it was so refreshing to visit, had she been able to distinguish in herself, as in all her fellow-men and women, that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting form of cruelty. — Marcel Proust

He'd stared into her eyes, dark with confusion and unwilling passion, and for one stark, horrible instant, he'd wished to be that different man. He'd wished to be worthy of her. — Anna Campbell

An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his whole right arm which could be removed by no medicines, and which was at last succeeded by a perfect palsy of the whole arm ... He learned to write with his left hand, which was soon thereafter seized with the same disorder. — Bernardino Ramazzini

We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could have bought it, and you're asking me to marry you?"
"Perfect timing. — J.D. Robb

The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things — G.K. Chesterton

I rarely plan my research; it plans me. — Max Perutz

None of that seemed real, but the world would certainly be cooler with something so unreal in it. — Holly Black

Don't look back in life and have regrets. Go for your goal! — Shirley Bourrage

But if they have a flashlight, it means they're human and not some kind of monsters from the surface,' objected Artyom.
"I don't know what's worse," said Melnik, cutting off Artyom. — Dmitry Glukhovsky

That people should love like this, that Mr. Bankes should feel this for Mrs. Ramsay (she glanced at him musing) was helpful, was exalting. — Virginia Woolf