Zdrapto Quotes & Sayings

Her dad brought his hands together and popped a knuckle.
"Trevor," Frances said soothingly, rubbing her hand on his back. But she was looking hard at me over her glasses, telling me upstanding citizens did not act this way.
When we were kids, that look from Frances could make Lori and her brother behave, and sometimes even my brothers, but I never seemed to get the message.
"I saw you coming out of the woods," Lori's dad shouted at me. "Together!"
"We weren't rolling in the leaves or anything. Look, no evidence." I put my other hand on Lori's other shoulder and turned her around backward, hoping against hope
she didn't have scratches from the tree on her bare back, or bark on her butt.
"Get your hands off my daughter. — Jennifer Echols

I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs. — Julius Evola

I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard. — Donatella Versace

If there was a horse and the horse looked like you, I would find that horse attractive. — S.J. Kincaid

After Passing By
The children watch
a distant point.
Lamps go out.
Some blind girls
question the moon
and spirals of grief
rise in the air.
The mountains survey
a distant point. — Federico Garcia Lorca

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere. — Vince Lombardi

It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one. — William Sloane Coffin

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. — Groucho Marx

My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits. — Amy Chua

I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love. — Nicholas Sparks

I want a future where women and girls get to be the subject of their own sexuality, not the object of somebody else's. That we are the main characters in our own play, not props in somebody else's - which is how women's sexuality is treated now. Whatever the outside attitudes about sexuality it's always about somebody's agenda for us, and I want a world where we can have our own. — Jaclyn Friedman

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army. — Jim Talent