Sifters Quotes

#1. Vicars, he often thought, are essentially God's lawyers on the earth. Interpreters of the law, the finders of nuance, sifters through rationalizations to get at the truth or the need of the moment.
Guessers, in other words.

Julie Anne Long

#2. Be warned, then: the collected volumes of this series will contain frozen mountains, foetid swamps, hostile foreigners, hostile fellow countrymen, the occasional hostile family member, bad decisions, misadventures in orienteering, diseases of an unromantic sort, and a plenitude of mud.

Marie Brennan

#3. Can a person not be two things at once?

Jodi Picoult

#4. There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

Georges Duhamel

#5. The difference between perfection and excellence is one can actually be achieved.

Rodo Sofranac

#6. There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#7. I feel desperate when it comes to you. Desperate and a little bit insane. All I can think about around you is what you taste like.

Fisher Amelie

#8. I found my eyes repelled by hers as if they were the like poles of a pair of magnets.

Alan Bradley

#9. Because of the pace of daytime, you don't necessarily have time to work every detail of your character, so you have to bring a lot of it yourself.

Sarah Brown

#10. My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.

Charlene Tilton