Sylvie Green Quotes

#1. A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.

Theodore Roosevelt

#2. I'd probably sit around the house and get lonesome if I didn't have something to do.

David Edwards

#3. Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.

Herman Melville

#4. Ledoux's face was pebbled with mosquito bites. Forget the Cutter's and that means every needle-nose bug in the woods spare-changing you for blood like cornerboy hustlers spotting a strung-out Kennedy trying to score on Seventh. Like you got plenty to give.

Daniel Woodrell

#5. The bar exam's a mother. I mean, for me it was. I failed it the first two times, but I guess it's like losing your virginity, third time's the charm.

Jimmy McGill

#6. A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

#7. Better, perhaps, to dress like a whore around the clock and thus achieve a fully integrated personality.

Chris Kraus

#8. Any spot on this planet was going to be infinitely better than the world they'd left behind. For the first time in his life, he was free.

Kass Morgan

#9. You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.

Andrew Loog Oldham

#10. Do for yourself or do without.

Gaylord Perry

#11. Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.

Watchman Nee

#12. but I noticed she was parked on a bench near the back wall of the palace in the brutally hot sun, her closest companion

Kiera Cass

#13. Chivalry - ... a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

Richard M. Weaver

#14. If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes.

Jeanette Winterson