Decontextualized Language Quotes

#1. Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.

Alison McGhee

#2. I'm sure Uncle Eddie won't kill him. He'll probably just maim him a little."
"No," Uncle Eddie said. "I won't."
"Okay," Gabrielle said. "So he'll maim him a lot. But Hale can take it.

Ally Carter

#3. As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood.

Frederick Russell Burnham

#4. Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.

Jimmy Carter

#5. Evil is not good's absence but gravity's
everlasting bedrock and its fatal chains
inert, violent, the suffrage of our days.

Geoffrey Hill

#6. Don't punish yourself for what others have done to you. You're better than them. You're better than you think.

Mia Tyler

#7. Guide dogs for the blind. It's cruel really, isn't it? Getting a dog to lead a man round all day. Not fair on either of them.

Steve Coogan

#8. Carmyn drops her glass from her lips first and bites into the slice of lime she's holding in her other hand. Her lips wrap around the flesh of the fruit, and my dick flexes in earnest. I've watched women suck on me and not look nearly that seductive.

Angeline Kace

#9. I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard.

Catherine Fisher

#10. Matthias suspected that Brekker would drag the girl back from hell himself if he had to. Jesper

Leigh Bardugo

#11. Ballet has a very small audience, unfortunately.

Sascha Radetsky

#12. The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.

Tom Clancy

#13. My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.

Ofra Haza

#14. I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.

Stacy Keach

#15. Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack.

Timothy Olyphant