Corporal Nobbs Quotes

#1. You can't turn something into something else," said Corporal Nobbs. "The Alchemists have been trying it for years." "They a can gen'rally turn a house into a hole in the ground," said Sergeant Colon.

Terry Pratchett

#2. The Ramkins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving.

Terry Pratchett

#3. And empty heads console with empty sound.

Alexander Pope

#4. Please," she begged, kissing me again, reaching for my other hand and trying to pull it around her. "I want to be with you so much it's making it hard to breathe.

Christina Lauren

#5. Think... of the world you carry within you.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#6. The part I gave you is the wick. It's what makes the lantern work. You are my wick, Farrow. I need you to soar.

Lisa Marie

#7. Asymmetrical relationships never work.

David Amerland

#8. We would be going to war for peace.

Rachel Hartman

#9. Life isn't really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#10. Farewell Gaultier!! Preteporte will miss you! 4 ever

Madonna Ciccone

#11. Lyrics are back, maybe. It seems like there was a bit of an attitude that lyrics are not important.

Stephen Malkmus

#12. The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.

Confucius

#13. When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset.

Vince Cable

#14. She noticed then that Conor was watching her.
'Are you going for a swim?' he asked her.
'In a while. Why don't you go down and check if it's warm enough?'
'And if it's not warm enough?'
'We'll still go in. But at least we'll know.

Colm Toibin

#15. We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.

Barack Obama

#16. I could have told, just looking at him, that that was the tone he would use asking a question. A tone that took it for granted any question he asked was going to be answered because he asked it. I don't like it and I know of no way anybody is ever going to make me like it.

Rex Stout

#17. It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.

Laurie Halse Anderson