Stringstream Quotes & Sayings

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs. — Gwyneth Paltrow

It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior. — George Santayana

Blomkvist had kept the promise he'd made in December to stop visiting Lundagatan in the vain hope that Salander might appear. — Stieg Larsson

For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me and them, but they stay out of the book writing itself. — Sarah MacLean

The house on The Crescent, stepped into the hillside, had no face. In — Jonathan Lethem

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people. — Jesse Jackson

That is why in adult life, people generally tend to relive rather than live, that is, to repeat the patterns of the past and defend the primary fantasy in the defiance, and avoid the real gamble or real adventure of taking a chance on something new. They are afraid that if they really cry out, if they really ask, if they really scream for help, that it won't come, and they'll be in the same panicky frightened state they were in when they were little. — Robert W. Firestone

It was either the wind or the spirit of the house itself, briefly unsettled by our nocturnal absence but to old to be surprised by the errands born from the gap between what we can imagine and what we can in fact create. — Michael Cunningham

Winching was apparently a guy thing. As was wenching. — Darynda Jones