Strangeand Quotes & Sayings

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy. — Honore De Balzac

A Note Regarding Supplemental — Barbara Brundage

I like Mr. Dickens' books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray's daughters. — David Markson

I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I've never supported it. And I don't think any Conservative government would have done it. — David Cameron

Islam can only be modernized from within. If I state that I condemn the practice of stoning, that this punishment is despicable, it changes nothing. My fellow Muslims will say: Brother Tariq, you became a European, a Swiss citizen, so you are no longer one of us. — Tariq Ramadan

Remember as you go about your day that you may be the only Jesus some of your friends, neighbors, and family will ever see. — Wanda E. Brunstetter

The woman leans the sadness of her body against the window, tries to look beyond the pear tree. Inside the story, she sees nothing but darkness. She is ungrateful for the luxury of despair. — Conchitina Cruz

Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well. — James Frey

If a historian does not understand the bounds of the social space within which the events he is studying occurred, all he is doing is to paint a picture of his own society in fancy dress. — Eric John

I don't underestimate the power of mental preparation throughout all of my training. I'm in a much better state of mind about competition. — Amanda Beard

Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have toiled & saved that they may leave something to their families deprived of their care & the support of their labour, is to my mind the worst of crimes. — Robert E.Lee

But my mom's going to hate being hated. she's a skinny beautiful lady with perfect hair; she's just not equipped to deal with hate. — Chuck Palahniuk

It has also been the peculiar lot of our country to be visited by the worst kind of English travellers. — Washington Irving

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. — P. J. O'Rourke