Versified Def Quotes & Sayings

A man who wields a pen has to be accountable to society. — Shusaku Endo

She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror. — Nicholas Sparks

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other. — Abraham De Moivre

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table. — Craig Claiborne

The longer we delay, the more we will pay. — Ban Ki-moon

Piper should've been losing her mind. Instead, all she felt was dread. — Rick Riordan

Obviously, raw talent is important, but the difference-maker between first and the rest of the pack is usually desire. — Zig Ziglar

I still think that I'm dreaming. It's a strange feeling. I always try to watch the final of Grand Slams because that's where the best players are playing ... I never expected to play a final. I never expected to win a Grand Slam. And right now I just did it. — Stan Wawrinka

In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs. — H.P. Lovecraft

Sometimes a bus ride was all it took to feel better. — Naomi Shihab Nye

Lizzyboo digs me, which is just as well, because if she wants to find the way to my heart she's going to need a fucking shovel. She's going to need to dig up London Fields. — Martin Amis

It's rough being a teenager in this day and age. — Kay Panabaker

We have our roots in country, and that's our foundation, but we pull from a lot. — Dave Haywood