The Serpentine Quotes

#1. Yes, she was a scandal.
Her brother simply didn't know it.
"I fell in the Serpentine today."
"Yes, well, that doesn't usually happen to women in London. But it's not so much of a scandal as it is a challenge.

Sarah MacLean

#2. Still, his scars, combined with the serpentine wound now visible without the bandage covering his shoulder, made him all the more dangerous.
He was, to me, terrifyingly beautiful.

Kristen Simmons

#3. The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety.

William Hogarth

#4. On Christmas Day I'll head off for a couple of laps around the Serpentine, or a trek around the whole of Hyde Park. Or I'll walk right across town, with Curtis, my son Jamie's bull mastiff

Stella Vine

#5. As the serpentine expanse of glass drew open, the city seemed to wrap around them: rooftop gardens with stunted trees in pots, water towers like chunky flying saucers, the spires of distant skyscrapers.

Scott Westerfeld

#6. I have learned to be molded by God into the person He wants. I want to help and encourage others to be the best they can be.

Kim Alexis

#7. I think the nice thing about 'Doctor Who' is whether people like it or don't like it, somewhere, someone loves you and will always love you - and the more everyone hates you, the more they'll love you.

Peter Capaldi

#8. Sometimes we succeed because of our upbringing, sometimes we do so in spite of it.

Lois Greiman

#9. Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly.

Michael Lewis

#10. Mountains have long-lost kinfolk on the other side of the Atlantic. The bloodline that marks that kinship is a vein of a green mineral called serpentine ...

Sharyn McCrumb

#11. Behind us I saw the water, still welling up from the tunnel, curving round in a frothing serpentine torrent to plunge down the other descending passage. For a moment we all sat there and watched, numb and exhausted.

Kenneth Oppel

#12. But it is serpentine logic, for it simply compounds the old legal spirit. It is the natural instinct of the once-antinomian prodigal who, when awakened, thinks in terms of working his way back into the favor of his father.38

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#13. If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

Pope Benedict XVI

#14. Mountain bats, those massive serpentine creatures of myth. Those ancient scavengers of the battlefield.

Susan Dennard

#15. Sometimes, the shortest path between two points is serpentine,

Christopher Benfey

#16. Okay - there's no easy way to explain this, so I'm just going to say it. We're not human, Sophie.
-Keeper of the Lost Cities

Shannon Messenger

#17. This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Jefferson

#18. The motive of man depicts his soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Believe that severity, violence, slavery, danger in the street and in the heart, secrecy, stoicism, tempter's art and devilry of every kind, - that everything wicked, terrible, tyrannical, predatory, and serpentine in man, serves as well for the elevation of the human species as its opposite

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the way along the supply chain the need for more potatoes to be put on a truck a thousand miles away.

Stephen Elop

#21. In these matters, the cardinal says, there is no measure of time; these spirits slip from our hands and through the ages, serpentine, mutable, sly.

Hilary Mantel

#22. Mine was an apparent forward movement whereas Burley's was a continuous serpentine movement.

Archie Moore

#23. On each of two porches lie big chunks of serpentine - smooth as talc, mottled black and green. When you see rocks like that on a porch, a geologist is inside.

John McPhee

#24. A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.

Walter Savage Landor

#25. Love and kindness are a kind of gun that we can use to change everyone without hurting anyone.

Debasish Mridha