Cleo And Sterling Quotes

#1. A library will continue to function nicely without every other position, but without the pages it would grind to a stop within a quiet afternoon. All pages know this ...

Don Borchert

#2. Ell?" Kate asked. "You okay?"
"Yeah, I thought I saw a spider." I shook my fist at Will and scowled. "A big, really ugly one. Sorry.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#3. Class?" I asked in surprise. "Today?"
"This isn't a spa vacation, Tiger Lily. Just be glad it's History of Wormwood and not conditioning."
"Conditioning?"
"Hope you've got a bottle of Icy Hot in there.

Christine Manzari

#4. Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

George C. Williams

#5. Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Plutarch

#6. Be reasonable, my lord. Once you.ve done it, you'll want to do it all the time. For about three years. That's the way it goes. And your father has other work in mind for you.
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Hilary Mantel

#7. Well don't get your hopes up," I warned. "I'm a lot more trouble than i'm worth."
"I don't doubt that," he said, indicating my box of junk.
"What did you do to get sent here?"
"I can't tell you."
"Because then you'd have to kill me.

Christine Manzari

#8. The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#9. This nickel, unlike most money, has actually done a job of work, has been physically responsible for a reaction

John Steinbeck

#10. He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way, it is merely a choice between two woundings, of the pride or of the heart.

Elizabeth Goudge

#11. But was falling such a bad thing, she wondered. Was it, perhaps better to see the top of the mountain, even if only for a moment, than never to even try? Or was it that the higher you allow yourself to climb, the further you have to come crashing down to earth?

Gemma Malley

#12. The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still.

Helen Macdonald

#13. Life is too short to have debts and doubts,
Pay the bills, no regrets, be up and about.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#14. I do not separate France from Europe.

Lionel Jospin

#15. I think models have a lot less power than they did in the '80s, when there were, like, only 10 supermodels who could dictate the rules, whereas now there's so many, and that changes the power dynamic and makes it a more insecure business.

Lily Cole

#16. The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson