Modificatio Quotes

#1. [A] partial repeal, or, as the bon ton of the court then was, a modification, would have satisfied a timid, unsystematic, procrastinating Ministry, as such a measure has since done such a Ministry. A modificatio is the constant resource of weak, undeciding minds.

Edmund Burke

#2. The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.

Khalil Gibran

#3. You gonna stay pissed as i go down on you?" I just glared. "I'll take that as a yes." He muttered.

Kristen Ashley

#4. I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.

Laura Osnes

#5. I'm a huge fan of Alice Hoffman, Fred Chappell and Susan Elizabeth Phillips.

Sarah Addison Allen

#6. Who we are is what comes out when shit goes bad. You can't tell anything about a person when things are great. If you want to really know someone, be there when everything goes to hell.

Eileen Cook

#7. I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set.

Kiefer Sutherland

#8. I am rich and famous. I have a talented and gorgeous husband and two beautiful children. I could go on.

Madonna

#9. I can write about it if I am careful, if I keep it far enough away.

Kij Johnson

#10. You can create something that is pure genius, but you have to get your timing right.

Lang Leav

#11. Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.

Antonio Tabucchi

#12. Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose if only a writer can make them long to know what happens next.

Lynn Coady

#13. The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#14. Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.

Clay Shirky

#15. Something very worrying has been going on at Scotland Yard. We now know that in dealing with the phone-hacking affair at the 'News of the World,' they cut short their original inquiry; suppressed evidence; misled the public and the press; concealed information and broke the law. Why?

Nick Davies

#16. Without question, love in its various permutations is what we need more of in this world. The idea that the concept of marriage will be sullied by same-sex marriage is ridiculous. Heterosexuals haven't been doing that well at it on their own.

Hugh Hefner