Backstroke Of The West Quotes

#1. The voice without a body went on singing, and certainly Raoul had never in his life heard anything more absolutely and heroically sweet, more gloriously insidious, more powerful.

Gaston Leroux

#2. Love is an activity, not a feeling ... True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish.

Stephen L. Carter

#3. When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

Henry James Sumner Maine

#4. Prince William's smiling hostility toward the press is his non-negotiable core value. I am told he is so protective of his privacy he has been known to plant false tips with friends he distrusts and watch the media to see if they play out.

Tina Brown

#5. We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.

Mehmet Oz

#6. My focus has always been: I can be an incredibly conservative, principled idea person, but that doesn't mean I have to shout at people.

James Lankford

#7. All religions upon the earth are necessary because there are people who need what they teach ... Each church fulfills spiritual needs that perhaps others cannot fill. No one church can fulfill everybody's needs at every level.

Betty Eadie

#8. Strange that I knew it would end this way. Not in battle, but in a dirty alley, alone, hiding among the filth like the coward I was.
My poetic ending.

Ashlan Thomas

#9. I can't speak. I have no voice. I just stare at his dark blue yes. It feels as though I let the lifeboat sail away. I'm drowning in a sea of pain. He reached out, but I can't take his hand.

H.M. Ward

#10. 'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale is 'Mansfield Park.'

Susanna Clarke

#11. When one has little faith, one must survive from day to day signs-

Stephen King

#12. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

Susan B. Anthony