P 257 Quotes

#1. It was the sweetest torture, the most delightful torment, to let the man that had ruined me for joy bring it back into my body for one brief instant.

R.K. Lilley

#2. Difficulties are things that show people what they are.

Page 257

Jennifer Donnelly

#3. I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257-foot bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.

Jennifer Niven

#4. In the time of trouble just before the coming of Christ, the righteous will be preserved through the ministration of heavenly angels; but there will be no security for the transgressor of God's law. Angels cannot then protect those who are disregarding one of the divine precepts. [257]

Ellen G. White

#5. No son wishes to see his son less powerful than himself.

Hilary Mantel

#6. Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

Ann Landers

#7. Miller's bringing his buns!" I shout back. "But I was going to make my pineapple upside-down cake!" I laugh to myself, all the way to work.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#8. Get your filthy hands off the puzzle, you little brats!

Kazuki Takahashi

#9. I have not seen Al Gore's movie.

Dick Cheney

#10. A good chunk of my life had been spent sorting out the scrambled communications, festering hostilities, and frozen affections that characterized families in turmoil. (257)

Jonathan Kellerman

#11. The surfeit of loss in my life has convinced me it will be easier to be grieved for than to grieve.
Bethia as an old woman about to die
p 257

Geraldine Brooks

#12. When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three late marks for being over fifteen minutes late you'd get an after school detention. I got something like 257 marks. And I only lived about ten minutes away.

Matthew Bellamy

#13. Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.

Judith Malina

#14. Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#15. My appearances are almost theatrical performances. I bring items for the children to see, such as photographs and actual piece of meteorite, a family quilt, sometimes spectacles, sometimes clothing, so that they can understand what I write about is family stories based in fact.

Patricia Polacco

#16. First I showered off that horrible butt smell you get from being on an airplane. [p. 257]

Anne Lamott

#17. The Philadelphia Feds manufacturers report for September revealed that despite a sharp slowdown, its prices paid index surged 257 points.

Peter Schiff

#18. There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)

Keith Ablow

#19. Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.

Sebastian Junger

#20. I see what you mean. It must be a huge relief, and an easy way out, to think the devil is always outside of us. ( ... ) we would stop looking for Sheitan outside and instead focus on ourselves. What we need is sincere self-examination. Not being on the watch for the faults of others. (p. 257).

Elif Shafak

#21. A border
the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory
forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.

Jane Jacobs

#22. Hey...kid," he (Adam) said, "can...I...come....in?"
You never had to ask before," she (Phoebe) sad, holding the screen open for him.
-Kiss of Life page 257
We need...to be...invited," he said.

Dan Waters

#23. Amazingly threequarters of all the IDPs were put up by the people of Mardan and the nearby town of Swabi.

Malala Yousafzai

#24. Hermes?" I stammered. "Hello, Percy. Didn't recognize me without my jogging clothes?" "Uh ... " I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what.

Rick Riordan

#25. Landlords in New York are generally the scum of the earth. They're beneficiaries of the worst kind of nepotism, eating off the good business decisions of their parents. They have no compassion because they've never had to work for shit to know how it feels to need a fucking break. (256-257)

Eddie Huang

#26. Slavery was immensely profitable to some masters. James Madison told a British visitor shortly after the American Revolution that he could make 257 dollars on every (black slave) in a year, and spend only 12 or 13 dollars on his keep.

Howard Zinn

#27. Watching Abby own my brothers
hand after hand was turning me on. I'd never seen a woman so sexy in my life, and this one happened to be my girlfriend.-pg 257/ARC

Jamie McGuire

#28. Side note: invalid. Whoever invented that word, and made it the same word as not-valid? That person sucked.

Maria Dahvana Headley