248 Quotes

#1. The Triassic Period, 248-206 million years ago, was a scary time to live. Most of the dinosaurs were meat eaters and liked to prey on each other. The fastest dinosaurs, the Coelphysis,

Alexander G. Michaels

#2. And by the way, Sherlock Holmes is Jewish. He changed his name. I'm surprised you nerver guessed it. (p. 248)

Rebecca Goldstein

#3. 248. You will only have influence and power in the field of your gifts and talents

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise. (p. 248)

Simone De Beauvoir

#5. I just want to show her that her life is worth living, that she can't let her past dictate her future.

S.A. Rolls

#6. And you should not be out and about in your nightgown. There are Lightwoods wandering these halls.

Cassandra Clare

#7. Wrath dragged Beth into his arms and hugged her hard, talking in that other language again. When he pulled back, he ended the monologue with something like leelan.
Beth: Is that vampire talk for bitch?

J.R. Ward

#8. On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

Freya Stark

#9. Officially, of course, we're all to be treated the same, yes? But that is rarely put into practice.

Veronica Roth

#10. And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be
living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got
you invited to the very best social occasions.

Terry Pratchett

#11. It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.

Cormac McCarthy

#12. There's a competitive fire inside me. I can't get enough. I live to compete daily in my own life.

Mike Holloway

#13. LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.

Ambrose Bierce

#14. I just saw Hayley's Comet, she waved, said Why you always running in place? Even the man in the Moon disappeared
somewhere in the stratosphere.

Shinedown

#15. What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.

Ken Kesey

#16. Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

Douglas Adams

#17. Men and women of western Sydney, it's appropriate, you apparently believe, that Australia's oldest surviving Prime Minister should make the concluding remarks in Australia's oldest surviving Government House. I hope the building's foundations are a bit more substantial than mine.

Gough Whitlam

#18. Upstairs Margaret said abruptly, 'I suppose it starts to happen first in the suburbs,' and when Brad said, 'What starts to happen?' she said hysterically, 'People starting to come apart.

Shirley Jackson

#19. During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them ... their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#20. I once told Olly that I knew my our heart better than I knew anything else, and it's still true. I know the places in my heart, but the names have all changed.

Nicola Yoon