Stainforth Force Quotes & Sayings

Do not quit, endure and find strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The air is dry and light and its effect on the mind is similar to that of a glass of Champagne before dinner. — Ahdaf Soueif

If she really had any doubt, the look in Dr. Alec's face banished it without a word, as he opened wide his arms and she ran into them, feeling that home was here. — Louisa May Alcott

Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it. — Kate Bornstein

[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand. — Ivan Krastev

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane. — Muriel Rukeyser

Schoolchildren all over America are told to write to authors-often to authors whom they have never before heard of, whose work they are to young to understand in the least, and often in letters which are almost illiterate. If children are to be taught to respect the work of American poets I think some better way might be found to do so- some way which would not make such an inconsiderate demand on the author's time. — Conrad Aiken

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be. — Pierre Corneille

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today. — Hjalmar Schacht

I always say you need something weird on your face and some good shoes and nobody looks in the middle. — John Waters

Her heavy peasant face was fringed by a bang of red hair like a woolen table-spread, a color at once strange and attractive, an obstinate color, a color that seemed to make Lena feel something alien and bad-tempered had settled over her forehead ... — Djuna Barnes