Quotes About 281

#1. To lend a book is an incitement to theft.
A Reader on Reading p. 281

Alberto Manguel

#2. He proceeded on the theory that confinement within the walls of the prison was punishment. That the law never intended to confine prisoners within the prison. From a moral point of view, it was putting the prisoner in double jeopardy. Actually it was a double punishment.

Lewis E. Lawes

#3. Just because you're grown up and then some doesn't mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)

Victoria Moran

#4. Some people, perhaps those with more dignity and less rage gnawing at the roots of their being, are nicer as failures, For me, it was like descending a deep pit that had no bottom

Amanda Craig

#5. Get the hell out of here. You're an accountant? You?" He must be joking . Beautiful and highly intelligent? I feel like I've found a unicorn.

Daniels, J. (2014-05-02). Sweet Addiction (Kindle Locations 280-281). . Kindle Edition.

J. Daniels

#6. If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

Baruch Spinoza

#7. An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.

Gary Miller

#8. If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

William Shakespeare

#9. -but what people expect can change you in the end.

Justin Go

#10. Courage is standing still even though you want to run. Courage is planting yourself and turning towards the thing that scares you, whether it's your leg or your friends or the guy who could break your heart again. It's opening your eyes and staring that fear down.

A J Betts

#11. The blind also cry. (Les aveugles aussi pleurent)

Charles De Leusse

#12. Are you not in a race; and is not the prize the crown of glory; and should you then sit still or take your ease? (281)

Richard Baxter

#13. In the pit of her stomach she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night
the restrictions, rules, and guidelines
was born of an ancient fervor. Every rule ever established, from the beginning of time, invited mutiny.

Robin Jones Gunn

#14. The way the two of them look at each other is like touching.

Ally Condie

#15. Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

Thomas H. Cook

#16. The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. ... where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings? (pp.281-82)

Sarah Turnbull

#17. The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy