Pearl In The Mist Quotes

#1. Was I prone to sadness and melancholy? How could anyone like that? It wasn't that I wanted it; it was that I was so used to hard rains, I couldn't help expecting a cloudburst every time something nice happened and sunshine beamed down over me.

V.C. Andrews

#2. Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution?

Arlen Specter

#3. I remembered Grandmere Catherine used to tell me your first impressions about people usually prove to be the truest because your heart is the first to react.

V.C. Andrews

#4. You know you're dealing with a numpty when her saving grace is that she didn't help to cover up a murder.

Rosen Trevithick

#5. We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.

V.C. Andrews

#6. I used to have this toy, a magic slate. You wrote or drew on it and then, just by pulling up the plastic cover, everything you did disappeared and you could start new. Maybe everyone feels that on New Year's Eve: They can pull up the magic sheet and rewrite their lives.

V.C. Andrews

#7. There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

Andrew Cuomo

#8. Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.

V.C. Andrews

#9. Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it.

V.C. Andrews

#10. In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. Whatever doesn't destroy you, makes you stronger. Hardships have a way of toughening us, if they don't kill us.

V.C. Andrews

#12. I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#13. Yes, I am a prisoner of sorts, but my prison isn't the house. It's my own thoughts that lock me up!

V.C. Andrews

#14. We had been separated by time and distance and events so long, it was as if we had to get to know each other again, but if it was possible to fall in love with the same person twice, I did.

V.C. Andrews

#15. The sum of a man isn't the things he's done, it is the world he leaves behind.

C. Robert Cargill

#16. Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.

Jeff Buckley

#17. There's no better way to unplug than having children. Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.

Andrew Lincoln

#18. People say, 'Jay, you're a great guy, you just had a couple of bad nights.' People that have themselves under control don't have a couple of bad nights like that. Plain and simple.

Jayson Williams

#19. Well, everybody's a drummer, I'll tell you that right now. Everybody knows what's right rhythmically for a song, so there were always suggestions flying my way.

Sam Fogarino

#20. One cannot try marriage. Once one is in, there is no way out.

Mary Balogh

#21. It's better not to make a promise than to make one you can't keep.

V.C. Andrews