Slinks Away Quotes

#1. Catch a dog in your favorite chair, and he slinks away abashed. The cat will pretend incomprehension; surely you must know it's her chair?

Leonore Fleischer

#2. Imagination has a poor memory, it slinks away and gets blurry. Eyes remember much longer.

Kendare Blake

#3. Lynx stood and raced to the camp. "Attend to our injured!" She unsheathed a machete and made for Hare's killer.
Heron grabbed her wrist. "Wait. He's still conscious."
"Then he will feel my machete," she replied, voice like ice.

Gwynn White

#4. My parents have always been very concerned of making sure we know who we are and where we come from. I have to give them credit for that. Knowing your roots is quite important.

Dilshad Vadsaria

#5. It's just that it seems to me that what is a terrible hardship to one person may seem trivially small to another, but that does not necessarily make the hardship any the less hard to bear for the one who suffers it.

Anna Elliott

#6. Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don't recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Robert Baden-Powell

#7. Unity is what we are afraid of so fear is insanity. Let's love each other.

Chris Brown

#8. The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

Michael Ondaatje

#9. I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.

Donald Cargill

#10. When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

Keren Ann

#11. Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.

Jeff Smith

#12. You use the word "Infinity" very glibly ... Have you ever been there? Time and space are extensions of the mind, the will. Which means that infinity is a purely local phenomenon. You can turn over a stone and find it crawling there. Or you can make it yourself out of whatever materials are at hand.

Mike Carey

#13. As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

Thom Gunn

#14. Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.

Morley Safer

#15. If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

Mark Twain