Gaolers Quotes

#1. Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.

Peter Kropotkin

#2. Clocks are the enemies of time ... they are the gaolers of day and the turnkeys of night.
Tom Thumb

Lavie Tidhar

#3. Sometimes life seems like a match between oneself and one's gaolors. The gaolers, of course, are one's mistakes; and the question is, who'll hold out longest? When I think of that, life instead of being too long, seems as short as a winter day ...

Edith Wharton

#4. To help me to my grave. I asked for you to leave. Will you make me call my gaolers and have you dragged away, you vile, scheming, evil bitch?

George R R Martin

#5. His cologne was practically hijacking my ovulation cycle and I had to fight the urge to let my face collapse onto his shirt and inhale.

R.S. Grey

#6. I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.

Joe Barton

#7. I have two enemies in all the world,
Two twins, inseparably fused:
The hunger of the hungry and the fullness of the full.

Marina Tsvetaeva

#8. Cyn stopped, drawing a deep breath. "Will you answer the fucking question or not? There's more at stake here than Raphael's Dick" Duncan choked back a laugh.

D.B. Reynolds

#9. The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans.

Tod Machover

#10. I explain to athletes, you're supposed to be a well-oiled machine. You're supposed to be in better shape than the people watching you. You're supposed to be an unbelievable specimen of a human being. You have to treat your body different while you're performing.

John Salley

#11. Serpine: You have caused me so much trouble over the years detective. It's almost a shame to end it
Skulduggery: You're surrendering?

Derek Landy

#12. Shame is the power we give others to wield over us.

Chinelo Okparanta

#13. It was March. The days of March creeping gustily on like something that man couldn't hinder and God wouldn't hurry.

Enid Bagnold

#14. Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Jessica Park