Alleys Treats Quotes

#1. God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#2. I wasn't happy with the outcome in Vietnam. Now, I've never said that, but, you know, I'm getting to an age where I think I'd better start saying it ... And I don't mean that to sound that I'm being critical of somebody or blaming somebody.

Alexander Haig

#3. I was brought up to believe that everyone brave is forgiven, but in wartime courage is cheap and clemency out of season. Unless

Chris Cleave

#4. Kids are fair game; women are fair game.

Timothy McVeigh

#5. Marriage isn't about rights as much as it is about revelation.

Gary Thomas

#6. He who does not mortify his palate will neither know how to mortify his flesh.

Paul Of The Cross

#7. He also had a device that looked rather like a largish electronic calculator. This had about a hundred tiny flat press buttons and a screen about four inches square on which any one of a million "pages" could be summoned at a moment's notice.

Douglas Adams

#8. Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative.

Anthony Horowitz

#9. One survey of American newspapers found that the number of articles written by papers' own writers increased from 25 percent to 45 percent between the 1820s and 1850s.

Tom Standage

#10. Everything I know now ... the pitfalls, the highs and lows, everything ... it taught me and made stronger.

Ray Allen

#11. She flinched when I did it, and that involuntary response of hers satisfied me in some small, cheap way. I never claimed I was lovable. Never said I wasn't a son of a bitch.

Wally Lamb

#12. Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later.

R. K. Milholland

#13. She was bored with simply being straight-A's Claudia Kincaid. She was tired of arguing about whose turn it was to choose the Sunday night seven-thirty television show, of injustice, and of the monotony of everything.

E.L. Konigsburg

#14. Bibliomancy: Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.

Marilyn Johnson

#15. And to my soul mate," he raises his glass, "who has been with me all along, but is absent from my side.

T.L. Swan