Unsifted Quotes & Sayings

You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances. — William Shakespeare

Soldiers are dreamers. — Siegfried Sassoon

My best vacation is your worst nightmare. — Jim Bridwell

It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective mood, but to speak from the imagination of the poet to the imagination of the reader. — Kathleen Raine

Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude. — Joseph Addison

A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. In is that spirit that every one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is given to everyone of us to know how to do our own part well. — Mahatma Gandhi

I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset. — Zsa Zsa Gabor

The only institution in the Sicilian conscience that really counts is the family; counts, that is to say, more as a dramatic juridical contract or bond than as a natural association based on affection. The family is the Sicilians' State. The State, as it is for us, is extraneous to them, merely a de facto entity based on force; an entity imposing taxes, military service, war, police. Within the family institution the Sicilian can cross the frontier of his own natural tragic solitude and fit into a communal life where relationships are governed by hair-splitting contractual ties. To ask him to cross the frontier between family and State would be too much. In imagination he may be carried away by the idea of the State and may even rise to being Prime Minister; but the precise and definite code of his rights and duties will remain within the family, whence the step towards victorious solitude is shorter. — Leonardo Sciascia

Odd way to dress for an investigation," Barrons murmured.
"She's not Dani anymore," Ryodan clipped.
"Would you rather she had on jeans and sneakers?" I said.
"I'd rather she had on a fucking suit of armor," Ryodan said cooly.
And a chastity belt if I could read the looks in a man's eyes. And I could. "She's a woman, Ryodan," I said softly. "Get used to it. Dancer was right. We need to accept her."
(Mac, Barrons and Ryodan as Dani/Jada walks into Chesters) — Karen Marie Moning

Everyone in the world has lost someone they care for. That doesn't mean you stop caring. — Hilary Thompson

Strong and bitter wordes indicate a weak cause. — Victor Hugo

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. — George R R Martin

Law of Conservation of Reality; this demanded that the effort needed to achieve a goal should be the same regardless of the means used. — Terry Pratchett