Ysabella Siobal Quotes & Sayings

The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world. — Peter Mandelson

He said he loved more than any other women he's ever loved and I had a black eye to prove it. — Crystal Woods

Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. Safe, true, but how boring! How confining! How sad! How could that compare with this? And what is safe? You were not safe on your little farm. War came to you and took all your safety away! If I am to be in this world, I want more than to be a hound upon the game board, tucked away in a corner until the jackals come and sweep all away! — Mercedes Lackey

I don't really believe in elegance. Ever since I first came to France many years ago to do the Chambre Syndicale course, I always felt I was somehow lacking, first of all being British - obviously a disaster! But I was also puzzled with this idea that you have to tie your Hermes scarf just right, or you can only wear black. — Suzy Menkes

Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives. — Sarah Strohmeyer

I didn't intend to write about totems or people searching. I tried not to constrain myself, and this is what I ended up with. There's this great Auden quote: "I look at what I write so I can see what I think." — Jonathan Safran Foer

Roger. Be Safe. We'll be there when we can, over. — Kalee Thompson

Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids? — Vladimir Nabokov

In a wartime survey conducted by a team of food-habits researchers, only 14 percent of the students at a women's college said they liked evaporated milk. After serving it to the students sixteen times over the course of a month, the researchers asked again. Now 51 percent liked it. As Kurt Lewin put it, People like what they eat, rather than eat what they like. — Mary Roach

I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back. — Vin Diesel

I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911) — Ernest Rutherford

Aren't you ever satisfied? I swear if I were mortal, I'd be limping from our last go-round. If not dead. We really need to find you a hobby other than jumping on top of me. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'. — Friedrich Nietzsche

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible. — Norton Juster

I felt as though the
past and the future, cause and effect, patterns and connections, were a huge complicated artifice, and it was only by my efforts that they kept going.
If I gave up it would all dissolve into the raw chaos of the senses. That's all we really have. The rest is romanticism and storytelling. But we need
those stories. I guess I do. — Ann Brashares