The Crow Wicked Prayer Quotes & Sayings

I don't know why anyone likes sledding in the first place." I said. "Life goes downhill enough without speeding the process along. — Lemony Snicket

The past is haunting us. In Queens, in Manhattan, it is shadowing us, punching us in the stomach. I am small, and my father is big. But the Past - it is the biggest. — Gary Shteyngart

Frank once slipped something into the pocket of a luggage handler at the airport and said: "Have a drink on me." The luggage handler later found out it was a tea bag. — Frank Carson

[W]hat with the hours dedicated to the law and those given to dining out or entertaining friends at home, with an occasional evening at the Opera or the play, the life he was living had still seemed a fairly real and inevitable sort of business.
But Newport represented the escape from duty ... — Edith Wharton

Cirrus sky hawk drift, blue haze in the autumn air, and my mouth is dry. — Gregg Boddy

In my opinion, New York City police officers are brave. — Heath Ledger

I became an actress because I'm lazy. I wouldn't apply myself at school. — Michelle Gomez

You're livin' in Badass World, baby," he whispered in my ear. "Fair warning, until I fix what I cut in you, you're there to stay. — Kristen Ashley

I think we all [americans] think we're a special country. But the question is, what - what call does that give us? — Chris Matthews

I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube. — Arthur Smith

In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private. — Benjamin Franklin

And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden. — Rudyard Kipling

I don't care too much about talking, but I don't like being alone. — Ida Lokas

Life's Gifts

I saw a woman sleeping. In her sleep she dreamt Life stood before her, and held in each hand a gift - in the one Love, in the other Freedom. And she said to the woman, "Choose

And the woman waited long: and she said, "Freedom!"

And Life said, "Thou hast well chosen. If thou hadst said, 'Love,' I would have given thee that thou didst ask for; and I would have gone from thee, and returned to thee no more. Now, the day will come when I shall return. In that day I shall bear both gifts in one hand."

I heard the woman laugh in her sleep.

London — The London Times

All our human endeavours are like that, she reflected, and it is only because we are too ignorant to realize it, or are too forgetful to remember it, that we have the confidence to build something that is meant to last. — Alexander McCall Smith