Splintery Quotes

#1. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph." Papa's hands tightened on the splintery wood. "I'm an idiot."
No, Papa.
You're just a man.

Markus Zusak

#2. The tree feels splintery, nasty to my touch; it feels Floridian, more reptile than vegetable, more stucco than stone. I do loathe this state, their Elba.

Allan Gurganus

#3. A weird sequence of weather events had left a thin skin of ice around every tree and branch and twig. Each time the wind blew, a splintery groan issued from all directions at once.

Jennifer Egan

#4. Never give up and always keep fighting, because though times may be tough, the sacrifices do pay off, so just keep pushing towards your dream and just love it at the same time and enjoy it.

Gabby Douglas

#5. My soul is wrapped in harsh repose, Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes, But soft ... behold! A sunlight beam Butting a swath of glimmering gleam. My heart expands, 'tis grown a bulge in it, Inspired by your beauty ... Effulgent.

Joss Whedon

#6. We should be firing bad teachers.

Malcolm Gladwell

#7. Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

Ramakrishna

#8. To be forceful was not the same as being powerful and to be gentle was not the same as being fragile ...

Deborah Levy

#9. Regular panelists on shows can be terrifying. They own that space, and many guest comics suspect they are favoured in the edit, while their own hilarious jokes end up being ejected into the ether.

Jo Brand

#10. Do not look on [her] appearance or on the height of [her] stature, because I have rejected [her]; for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.
1 Samuel 16:7

Anonymous

#11. 'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature.

Sue Townsend

#12. Anyone can learn anything. What matters is if you want to.

Christina Daley

#13. I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there's nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don't produce as good things as you could.

Mick Jagger

#14. To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
[Lat., Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.]

Tacitus

#15. The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.

Daphne Du Maurier

#16. Whether it's right or wrong, fight for what you believe in.

Simone Elkeles

#17. His were the eyes of one who had seen too much suffering to take suffering too seriously.

Rick Yancey