Porlock Weir Quotes

#1. I'd overheard her several times on her lunch breaks, talking about how she wanted to be married before she turned twenty five. She also apparently wanted to be a stay-at-home mom with six kids, and live in a house in the suburbs. In other words, she was completely out of her fucking mind.

Whitney Gracia Williams

#2. I've always chased glamour.

Nicholas Haslam

#3. We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels

Richard Branson

#4. He'd probably be allowed to drive now whenever he wanted, but there was nowhere he wanted to go without Eleanor.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange.

Simon Mainwaring

#6. I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.

William S. Burroughs

#7. Bad friends could ruin your whole life. Be wise when it comes to choosing your friends. You set the standard. You be the one who stands strong. Don't be a follower.

Robin Jones Gunn

#8. The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.

Yitzhak Shamir

#9. The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Maureen Dowd

#10. One who finishes, lasts.

Jeffrey Fry

#11. It felt like he'd been starved for sunshine and had now been deprived the chance of standing in its warmth.

M. Leighton

#12. Maybe those sorts of yes-or-no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's easier. Human emotions, well ... they're just a fathomless collection of grays and I don't do so well on the midtones.

Jasper Fforde

#13. I certainly never felt rejected because they had given me up. My parents knew nothing about my birth mother, yet always explained with certainty that she didn't "give me up" or "give me away" - she made a plan for me, the best one she could make under her circumstances, whatever those were.

Emily Giffin