The Sweet Hereafter Novel Quotes & Sayings

Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure. — Greg Bear

I taught school in the early days of my manhood and I think I know something about mothers. There is a thread of aspiration that runs strong in them. It is the fiber that has formed the most unselfish creatures who inhabit this earth. They want three things only; for their children to be fed, to be healthy, and to make the most of themselves. — Lyndon B. Johnson

We are the leaders that we have been waiting for. We are the social innovators and entrepreneurs that we have been seeking. — Duane Elgin

The doors had not two, but four shutters of paneled teak so that in the old days, ladies could keep the bottom half closed, lean their elbows on the ledge and bargain with visiting vendors without betraying themselves below the waist. Technically, they could buy carpets, or bangles, with their breasts covered and their bottoms bare. Technically. — Arundhati Roy

But the truth is, there's little even the most organized people can do to prepare themselves for having children. They can buy all the books, observe friends and relations, review their own memories of childhood. But the distance between those proxy experiences and the real thing, ultimately, can be measured in light-years. — Jennifer Senior

When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can't be real. It ought to be but it isn't. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn't say it. — Ada Leverson

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty. — Bill Paxton

No! I don't feel any pressure right now! — Tito Sotto

First-century Jews looked forward to a public event ... in and through which their god would reveal to all the world that he was not just a local, tribal deity, but the creator and sovereign of all ... The early Christians ... looked back to an event in and through which, they claimed, Israel's god had done exactly that. — N. T. Wright

I think most amateurs dread playing a 180-plus-yard par 3 even more than a hard par 4. Part of it is psychological: You think you should be getting a breather, distance-wise, and instead, you get hit with a long iron or hybrid shot over trouble. — Ernie Els

The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

When you put your efforts into your gift, you are giving God something to bless. — Steve Harvey

He knocked on the wall again. "Go check on Reth. But be careful. I haven't slept on purpose in way too long, so I'm going to bed. And since I'll be asleep anyway, come sleep next to me when you get back in, okay?"
I forced my voice to come out light and teasing. "Only if you're wearing footie pajamas."
He laughed. "I'll see if I can find a pair. — Kiersten White

The recording process [ for 'Dirty Work'] took longer than anticipated, because we kept going on tour in between the recording process to make sure that we were still pleasing all the fans across the world. — Jack Barakat