Wildchild Quotes & Sayings

The Guardian's Wildchild: Lorna tossed used linen onto the floor and snapped fresh sheets into place on the bed. She fluffed pillows into submission so they sat only as her big hands demanded. Lorna turned around and saw Sam standing in the main infirmary. She hustled into the main room and snapped to attention in front of him.
"You caught me working again." She feigned worry. "Damn! — Feather Stone

Never humiliate anyone. — Hans Blix

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself. — G. Stanley Hall

She had left his church and gone to the missionars, and there found more spiritual nourishment than Mr Cowie's sermons could supply, but she could not forget his kisses, or his gentle words, or his shilling, for by their means, although she did not know it, Mr Cowie's self had given her a more confiding notion of God, a better feeling of his tenderness, than she could have had from all Mr Turnbull's sermons together. What equal gift could a man give? Was it not worth bookfuls of sound doctrine? — George MacDonald

I am so lazy. I really don't have a regimen. When I was younger I used to be into cardio and taebo and step-orobics and hiking. Lately, I haven't done anything at all. I'd like to get into yoga, but I've been really bad. — Bianca Lawson

Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother. — Jada Pinkett Smith

Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs. — Jim Gerlach

The first I heard of the beach was in Bangkok, on the Ko Sanh Road. — Alex Garland

But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing. — Albert Camus

You'll pardon me gentlemen if I make the fight short. I have a train to catch. — Sam Langford

I'm starting to reread a bunch of Gandhi and it was kind of traumatic, because he was so clearly, unbelievably amazing. And the stuff that he is suggesting is so profoundly opposite from what is happening in our world today. — Daniel Pinchbeck

Angel and Louis in particular could have catalyzed a coma victim back to consciousness. He knew where Parker and the others were — John Connolly

I feel it is the duty of one who goes his own way to inform society of what he finds on his voyage of discovery. — C. G. Jung

It's not the type of thing Bengali wives do. Like a kiss or caress in a Hindi movie, a husband's name is something intimate and therefore unspoken, cleverly patched over. And so, instead of saying Ashoke's name, she utters the interrogative that has come to replace it, which translates roughly as Are you listening to me? — Jhumpa Lahiri