Quotes About Lief

#1. Lief. That's not nice, considering all your sister has done for you," admonished Perl.
"Oh right. How could I forget that she made me bait for a snake, left me on house arrest in Ixia, and smuggled me into the Keep in a coffin.

Maria V. Snyder

#2. Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.

A.E. Housman

#3. Enough, I say. Our guests will be arriving shortly, and I would as lief they were left in the dark about this particular strain of insanity in the family that makes you two revert to childhood at the drop of a napkin.

Kasey Michaels

#4. Dashed if I didn't receive a letter from him this morning! Yes, and what's more, I had to pay sixpence for it, which I'd as lief not have done. It ain't that I grudge sixpence, but what I mean is, why the deuce should I have to give sixpence for a thing I'd as soon not have?

Georgette Heyer

#5. I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#6. The adrenaline of death is difficult to match. A mind knows when lief is really at stake. You can't convince it otherwise, you can't lie to it.

Sarang Gupta

#7. When the time comes,' Lief said, determinedly drowning her out, 'I will follow Adin's example, and marry for love.' He glanced at her. 'if the woman I love will have me, of course.'
'She probably will,'said Jasmine. 'When the time comes.' She slipped her hand into his.

Emily Rodda

#8. I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.

William Shakespeare

#9. I und'standed why Meronym'd not said the hole true 'bout Prescience Isle an' her tribe too. People b'lief the world is built so an' tellin 'em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours. Old

David Mitchell

#10. People b'lief the world is built so
an' tellin'em it ain't so caves the roof on their heads 'n'maybe yours.

David Mitchell

#11. Your hair looks funny," Lief said, as soon as the Ugloids left. "It stands straight up!"
No," said Nick, intensely irritated, "It's hanging straight down."
Lief just gave him an upside-down shrug. "Up is down in China and you're part-Chinese.

Neal Shusterman

#12. I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life; but, for my single self,
I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself.

William Shakespeare

#13. No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

William Hazlitt

#14. The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. How could there be different Gods, Lief?"

"I don't believe there are any at all," he says quietly. "But I believe there are men and women whose lives are made easier by believing someone is watching over them.

Melinda Salisbury

#16. I had as lief have been myself alone.

William Shakespeare

#17. Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"
Allie considered this. "Meaning?"
"Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads."
"Or tails," suggested Allie.
"What are you talking about?" said Lief.
"Life and death.

Neal Shusterman

#18. I only wanted to know, Prue. I be getting ancient and old, and the time draws nigh when life'll be a burden. I'd lief know as there was good in store for the best girl ever.

Mary Webb

#19. This game's stupid," said Lief. "Who the heck is Zelda, anyway?

Neal Shusterman

#20. I dare you to ask him," Frank said. The other boys were listening. Almanzo put his hands in his pockets and said: "I'd just as lief ask him if I wanted to." "Yah, you're scared!" Frank jeered. "Double dare! Double dare!

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#21. I would as lief look upon a piece of pastrami-stained paper as on the face of Alfred Kazin.

Saul Bellow

#22. - What is it called when one person make a huge mistake? - he called out, opening the driver's door to the Taurus.
- Easy - she said, pushing off the post and stepping to the front door. - That's called life.

Alessandra Torre

#23. The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.

Paul Theroux

#24. A Margo for each of us
and each more mirror than window.

John Green

#25. It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply ... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.

Trey Parker

#26. Write, if you must, because you feel like writing, never because you feel you ought to write.

John Fowles

#27. Ironic," Betty Lou said at last. "The cereus insists on sunlight
that's why it must be at the end of the yard. And yet it saves its flowers for the moon. The sun never sees what it fathers."
It takes from the day," I said, "gives to the night.

Jerry Spinelli

#28. Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace.

George W. Bush

#29. It strikes me as unfortunate that this approach - affording the same dignity to and investing in the same quality for a poor child as you would for your own - is so often received as provocative.

Jacob Lief

#30. I must not linger on details, daughter, because if we dally, this account may be left unfinished, and no one wants to read hundreds of quartos only to find that the story has no clear ending.

Isabel Allende

#31. I am an archaeologist of mature vintage. Rapid descents are not my specialty. I am the plodding type."
~ Grace Madison, PhD.

N.L.B. Horton

#32. Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives!

Mason Cooley

#33. we were never here nor there, never allowed to be happy or allowed to be sad.
Darkness and light, black and white, good and evil. Memories and new experiences were polar opposites requiring the same host: you.

Katia Lief

#34. I've learned ... that sometimes coming public with certain things, it inspires other people. And sometimes I want to keep things private ... but then I found out that it helps other families ...

Bubba Watson