Ostinato Quotes

#1. Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

Ernestine Rose

#2. It was a profound pleasure to her not to know what was coming next, provided some one whom she loved did.

George MacDonald

#3. Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

Agatha Christie

#4. So the point is, I don't have a right to tell anybody what's right or wrong about their lives. Who am I to tell you at any given moment of the day what would be right for you?

Robin Quivers

#5. Take the back roads instead of the highways.

Minnie Pearl

#6. The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.

Stirling Moss

#7. The curse of modern times is the preponderance of male hormones in places where they can do long-term damage. Even if were not talking about wars between nations or assaults on nature, there's still that aggressiveness that keeps us apart from each other and the problems we need to be working on.

Robert James Waller

#8. I'm going to be frank, Max ... "
"Of course. All cards on the table." But he gave me a poker smile.

Alfred Alcorn

#9. I remember when I left Hungary," Zoltan said, "understanding so completely that literature could save me as much as it could get me killed. Of course it's not like that here. But isn't it funny, that in some ways the price one pays for freedom of speech is ... a kind of indifference.

Daphne Kalotay

#10. Never trust a man who dresses too well or stays too clean. It ain't natural and whatever he's up to probably ain't legal.

Sue Merrell

#11. The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.

Henri Nouwen

#12. There you are. A simple commandment. Not ten of them, just one: 'Thou shalt not eat.' (Personally, I wish the very first edict from God hadn't involved dieting, don't you?)

Liz Curtis Higgs

#13. A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.

Anne McCaffrey