The Alloy Of Law Quotes

#1. We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its thorn; no pleasure without alloy. It is the law of our existence; and we must acquiesce.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. It was a bowl cut, the hairstyle for someone who doesn't grasp respectable haircuts but suddenly has to have one.

David S. Atkinson

#3. Better to have steel to hand and find no trouble than find yourself in trouble with no steel to hand.

Joe Abercrombie

#4. Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.

May Sarton

#5. My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.

Ciaran Hinds

#6. Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.

Thomas S. Monson

#7. Feel the emotions in my work not the technicality.

Deepika Behal

#8. Huh" Wayne said thoughtfully "Tea's poisoned."
With that, he toppled to the ground.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

B.B. King

#10. despite the passage of time, it wasn't getting any better.

Brent Weeks

#11. Can anything be more boring than an upper-class Englishman?

Alice Walker

#12. All beds became deathbeds at last.

Gene Wolfe