Unstringing Compound Quotes & Sayings

As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?"
"Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere. — Ilsa J. Bick

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. — William Bolitho

Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; — Patrick O'Brian

It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent also does the same, it is a even match. Defeating one's opponent is then a matter of faith and destiny. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

No matter how public your work is, it's just a relationship with yourself. And you have to create a little sacred space inside yourself to treasure that ... because when you die, that's still what you have. It's what you're born with and what you leave with. It's kind of a story of the way you accompanied yourself through your life. — Antony Hegarty

I lift weights four times a week, usually run five days a week. — Jimmie Johnson

I tell you, if you feel strange,
strange things will happen to you:
Fallen peacocks on library shelves — Rita Dove

Evil is the starry sky of the Good. — Franz Kafka

I should warn you that I'm not taken with horoscopes and such," I told her. She licked her lips again and said nothing. "If you must know, I'm a goat," I said. "That's right, a fecking goat. There's a whole nation of people behind the East Wall who say I was born in the year of the goat. I've no time for any system that has me as a goat. I don't care how ancient their civilization is. — Mark Lawrence

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art ... — Phyllis McGinley