Sufficiently Breathless Quotes

#1. The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be ...

Henry James

#2. The greatest light the eyes can see is God.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. I meant to learn something," Sophie said, impatient. "Something else than embroidery or dancing, or playing pretty tunes on the pianoforte. I am not a decorative object, Father. I have an intellect, also, and I wish to make good use of it.

Sylvia Izzo Hunter

#4. Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.

Alain De Botton

#5. Advice: Don't wait until someone you have issues with - especially someone you're related to - gets shot before you work it out.

James Patterson

#6. Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

George Borrow

#7. Most of the presidential candidates' economic packages involve 'tax breaks,' which is when the government, amid great fanfare, generously decides not to take quite so much of your income. In other words, these candidates are trying to buy your votes with your own money.

Dave Barry

#8. A chaos so great and so obscure that nothing about it can be known'.

Niall Ferguson

#9. We are reviewing our experience to enable us to respond to the cultural challenge: to help countries, communities and individuals interpret universal principles, translate them into culturally sensitive terms and design programmes based on them, programmes that people can really feel are their own.

Thoraya Obaid

#10. You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

Pierce Brosnan

#11. The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

Ken Robinson

#12. Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#13. When trials expose our faith-life, will others see us embracing both the joy and the pain of our life? We do not need to live out one and deny the other. Those around us need to recognize that both of these elements are part of life, and both give us hope for heaven.

Kay Warren

#14. The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.

Joshua Reynolds

#15. We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.

Lakshmi Mittal

#16. Growing up? Gavriel, that was last week watching her recover from crashing out of that office window. She fell out of her wheelchair and broke her other arm." Caspian laughed along with his mate.
Gavriel pulled the phone back and stared at it in horror.

Alanea Alder