Writhen Quotes & Sayings

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded. — Danny Boyle

Some people won't like me; that's just human nature. I battled with that for years, trying to please people, but now I haven't got time to win people over! I've got nappies to change! — Rebecca Ferguson

Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition. — Wynton Marsalis

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

All the unhallowed beauty I have found; All free - discordant shrills and form-defying wonders above ground, like writhen trees with draggled foliage struggling along the courses of wayback creeks; scarlet - and - green sky - streaking parrot - fires with parrot shrieks echo - shattering the shoulders of the hills; and desert - sunset - rage Rage for my mind, be clamant, do not cease you are my holiest habitat of peace. — Rex Ingamells

She replied that it was precisely men well versed in religion who beat their wives. The precepts of religion permitted such punishment. A virtuous woman was not supposed to complain about her husband. Her duty was perfect obedience. — Nawal El Saadawi

You never know what you are going to want until you see it clearly. — Shirley Jackson

The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition enjoy their own acts of beneficence equally with those to whom they are done, so there are scarce any natures so entirely diabolical as to be capable of doing injuries without paying themselves some pangs for the ruin which they bring on their fellow-creatures. — Henry Fielding

Every fresh advance which we make only reveals a fresh ridge beyond. And yet we have surely made some appreciable progress. — Arthur Conan Doyle

To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. — Robert Bellarmine