Winterleaf Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up. — J.D. Salinger

When the wind shifts against the sun, trust it not, for back it will run. — Karen White

I know, but it is a pleasant fiction, my dear, and the sheer impossibility of a quest is no reason to abandon it. — Graham McNeill

All that is 'free of cost' is compulsory (farajeeyat). — Dada Bhagwan

Oh, I don't think religion has failed. It's man who has failed. Christ hasn't failed. The Gospel hasn't failed. The teachings of God have not failed. — Gordon B. Hinckley

The difference between a thief and a congressman: When a thief steals your money, he doesn't expect you to thank him. — Walter E. Williams

I've been to the White House a number of times. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Because they have shamefully trampled underfoot the grace of God, they have forfeited all rights to compassion. — Daniel I. Block

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare,
Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear. — John Armstrong

But then he saw it, then he saw what he had known he was seeing and could not accept. There in the night, amid the mist, upon the flat of the plains, the shimmer of light from Allear was not right. The grasses were too flat, the mists curled awkwardly, as if impeded by some large mass and then the glamor was gone, the trick revealed.
And before Thorin's very eyes, a mass of soldiers appeared - thousands of them - wearing black and facing his camp. Doom settled around Thorin like some shroud for a watery grave.
"Ah, bloody hell. — Clifton Hill

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you're doing, the more that' s an important thing. — Penn Jillette

What's a year in comparison with eternity? what's a day? an hour? a second? Such measures have meaning only for a heart that's still beating. — Amin Maalouf

As her mother always said, even a blind squirrel gets a nut every now and then. — Isabel Jordan