Teenth Quotes & Sayings

When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception. — Mardy Grothe

Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself. — Annie Dillard

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it. — Jane Austen

T here's no written rule anywhere that I know of stating this, no First-teenth Amendment to the Literary Constitution, but there might as well be: you get one national poet. — Thomas C. Foster

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. — George Washington Carver

Moments later, from the orphanage roof, a creature made of Christmas nightmares and holding a bulging sack that looked to hold doll-shaped toys made its escape through the silhouette of the city, not to be seen for another year. — Sebastian Gregory

Man knows much more than he understands. — Alfred Adler

Los Zapatos, which means "the shoes" ... was a small village not far from the ocean. It was fairly free of tourists. There was no good road, no ocean view ... and no historical points of interest. Also, the local cantina was infested with cockroaches and the only whore was a fifty-year-old grandmother. — Stephen King

You better stop
Look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes your nine-teenth nervous breakdown. — Mick Jagger

Even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is infallible, but one constitution that ought to be held sacred, and that is the human constitution. — Ernestine Rose

How, exactly, were beef and chocolate not in the same food family? — Michelle Gable

I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free - I had to work hard. — Greta Garbo

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ. — Pope Benedict XVI

Play it cool, that's the old school rule man ... — Nas

Several years later, after the Freedom of Information Act was passed, it was revealed that Cotton had been working undercover for the police. — Assata Shakur

Time is indifferent of the events and triumphs and tragedies of mankind, and really even, for the most part, of its own inexorable passage. — Ross Turner

I don't believe any of you suffer as I do," cried Amy, "for you don't have to go to school with impertinent girls, who plague you if you don't know your lessons, and laugh at your dresses, and label your father if he isn't rich, and insult you when your nose isn't nice. — Louisa May Alcott

My father never put a book into my hands and never forbade a book. Instead, he let me roam and graze, making my own more or less appropriate selections. I read gory tales of historic heroism that nine-teenth century parents were suitable for children, and gothic ghost stories that were surely not; I read accounts of arduous travel through treacherous lands undertaken by spinsters in crinolines, and I read handbooks on decorum and etiquette intended for young ladies of good family; I read books with pictures and books without; books in English, books in French, books in languages I didn't understand where I could make up stories in my head on the basis of a handful of guessed-at words. Books. Books. And books. — Diane Setterfield