Parentheticals Meme Quotes

#1. Evil is not good's absence but gravity's
everlasting bedrock and its fatal chains
inert, violent, the suffrage of our days.

Geoffrey Hill

#2. I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.

Cassandra Clare

#3. Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers and journalists, people raised eyebrows and called you a conspiracy theorist. Those days are over.

Edward Snowden

#4. Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.

Sharyn McCrumb

#5. During the election campaign of 2000, it was generally thought that then-governor Bush didn't know much about foreign policy or national security affairs, and that Colin Powell would lead on that front, while the president's main concern would be domestic.

Elliott Abrams

#6. Give respect before you expect it. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Remember the mission. Set the example. Keep going.

Vernon Baker

#7. You can choose what you write but you can't choose what you make live.

Flannery O'Connor

#8. I'm going to change clothes." Ethan lay down on the bed, one arm behind his head, ankles crossed. "All right," he said. "I'm ready." "Dirty. Old. Man.

Chloe Neill

#9. After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue.

Susanna Clarke

#10. Life ... moves us through all the time changes. All kinds of changes. And we're made so that we roll and move with it. Sometimes somebody gets stuck in the present and the rolling stops - but the changing doesn't.

Jacqueline Woodson