Rossouw Botes Quotes

#1. The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.

Helen Rowland

#2. Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

Juvenal

#3. I could die in this bed with him right now, wrapped in his arms and I would never know that I had died.

J.A. Redmerski

#4. At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

David Guterson

#5. I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.

Matthea Harvey

#6. Lord, I am your chosen woman; use me to accomplish your work on earth in Jesus Name. Amen.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. But he didn't seem surprised to see her. 'Hey.'
'Hey, yourself.' Okay, that was stupid. Her grandmother used to say Hey, yourself. Great, she was turning into her grandmother at the most inopportune time. She didn't want to sound like a well-adjusted sixty-year-old.

Suzanne Brockmann

#8. He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.

William Manchester

#9. If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

Victor Hugo

#10. And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.

Henry James

#11. An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

John Dryden

#12. He closes his hand around mine and I hold on. I like his hand. It's big and holds easy but sure. It's the kind of hold that says, I got you if you want me, but I'll let you go if you feel like running for a while.

Karen Marie Moning