Verbling English Quotes & Sayings

Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing. — Robert Falcon Scott

I don't want to be overly dramatic about it, but I think people more and more wonder, is this living, or are we just going through the motions? What's happening? Is everything being leached out of life? Is the whole texture and values and everything kind of draining away? — John Zerzan

Heaven help me, I wanted another taste, acknowledging that once was definitely not enough. All of a sudden there was an ache low in my belly, followed by a trickle of moisture between my legs. I would never survive this powerful and dangerous man. Yet, like Phaethon, I begged for the reins to the sun chariot. Idiotic. — Lora Ann

It was midsummer, but fresh water from the gasping sprinklers made the lawn glitter like spring. — F Scott Fitzgerald

He's the president now, but he's still Matt. My first crush, my first love. And I know that after Matt, I'll never want or love another man again. — Katy Evans

And yet, Lacedaemonians, you still delay, and fail to see that peace stays longest with those, who are not more careful to use their power justly than to show their determination not to submit to injustice. On the contrary, your ideal of fair dealing is based on the principle that, if you do not injure others, you need not risk your own fortunes in preventing others from injuring you. — Thucydides

To create is to be divine. — Jeffrey Fry

Be proud of what you do. But do something worth being proud of. — Steve Larson

George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality. — George Meredith