Ballagh Quotes

#1. It would have made a fitting tomb, she supposed, for Thady Boy Ballagh. That it was fitting for Francis Crawford she would not believe.

Dorothy Dunnett

#2. When you talk of not wanting children, it is impossible to avoid sounding defensive, like you're trying to prove the questionable beauty of a selfish and too-tidy existence.

Meghan Daum

#3. By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.

James C. Collins

#4. Forbid me not to weep; he was my father;
And, had you lov'd him half so well as I,
You could not bear his death thus patiently.

Christopher Marlowe

#5. I wanted to slice barren into my skin. That's how I'd stay, my insides unused. Empty and pristine. I pictured my pelvis split open, to reveal a tidy hollow, like the nest of a vanished animal.

Gillian Flynn

#6. It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.

J. C. Snead

#7. They were so tired, in fact, that they didn't notice the stranger who had followed them back, watching from the trees as they made their way home.

Jonathan Ballagh

#8. President Bush, have a hot dog with me.

Stephen Colbert

#9. If people think about options in terms of their features rather than as a whole, different options may rank as second best (or even best) with respect to each individual feature.

Barry Schwartz

#10. But every
kind of socialism is Utopian, most of all scientific socialism. Utopia replaces God by the future.

Albert Camus