Scheps Parallel Quotes

#1. She glanced rapidly between them, blinking and hoping her double vision would go away. They were glaring at each other. Would they fight? If she saw her own double she probably be tempted to punch it once or twice. Especially today. For being so stupid.

Karen Marie Moning

#2. In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.

David Landes

#3. From this vantage point he came to a realization that everything that had happened to him before this had been a journey upward through time, everything that occurred after it a descent. If he could not control his fate, why be born?

Irving Stone

#4. However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.

Martial

#5. For my own part, regret nothing. Have lived life, free from compromise ... and step into the shadow now without complaint.
-Rorschach

Alan Moore

#6. She patted him on the butt and told him, Nice buns, cowboy.

Thea Harrison

#7. I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

Martin Mull

#8. The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

Friedrich Schiller

#9. He did not know what to say in the face of such sorrow. He sat in silence by his sister's side in the spring verdure, which was too young; and the hidden strings in his breast began to quiver; and to sound.
This was the first time that he had ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul.

Halldor Laxness

#10. You should always challenge yourself, as an actor, to find the connection between you and the character.

Michael Ealy

#11. Dear refuge of my weary soul,
On thee, when sorrows rise,
On thee, when waves of trouble roll,
My fainting hope relies.

Anne Steele

#12. You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

Joanna Trollope

#13. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.

Ambrose Bierce

#14. Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

Katherine Anne Porter