Needlelike Quotes

#1. Maybe he was a good man once, this old one, my predecessor, but they had worn him down, in thirty years, like a big knife made thin and fragile, needlelike, from constant honings. All that good steel just rubbed away no one knew where.

James Jones

#2. That's the thing about parents. They ask what you think, but they don't really care, or at least they don't care enough to let it affect the outcome.

Peter Monn

#3. The situation is not about Hosni Mubarak, but the reality is now about Egypt, its present, the future of its sons, all Egyptians are in the same trench, therefore, we should continue our national dialogue That have already started in the spirit of groups but not enemies.

Hosni Mubarak

#4. A dog doesn't care if you're tired or it's raining. It wants to go out - and if it doesn't go out, it's going to be mournfully following you around the house for the whole evening.

Mark Barrowcliffe

#5. What a broad world to roam in, what a sea to swim in is this God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

A.W. Tozer

#6. (Later, Giddle's response when I told her I was in love: "Oh God, I'm so sorry. Love is awful. It ruins every normal thing, everything but itself. It makes you crazy and for nothing, because it's so disappointing. But good luck with that.")

Rachel Kushner

#7. Then she too seemed to blow out of his life on the long wind like a third scrap of paper.

William Faulkner

#8. Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.

Haruki Murakami