Turnpikes In The 1800s Quotes

#1. I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.

Aimee Bender

#2. Long live eternal Germany!

Wilhelm Frick

#3. At least yours talks," Elysia said, irritably shoving a fry into her mouth. "Mine just stares. Like a cow.

Gina Damico

#4. And what will you call her, then?" Nancy asked the new mother. "Abigail," Naomi said. "We will call her Abigail." "Ah," Nancy said with a smile of approval. "'Tis Hebrew, meaning 'the father's joy.

Melanie Schmidt

#5. It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise. The simple cannot fathom how any man would dare presume to prevail, while the wise are amazed that any reasonable man would want the world, assuming he could get it.

Gore Vidal

#6. The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.

Samuel Johnson

#7. And for almost four hours they sat at the opposite ends of the couch, the portable phonograph on the coffee table before them, their faces lit with silent and sorrowful fascination, listening as the music of a dead world filled the summer night.

Stephen King

#8. We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

Henry Fielding

#9. I think as a business it would be amazing if the euro was to collapse, but financially and economically I think that would be a bit of a tsunami for everybody to cope with.

Lloyd Dorfman

#10. They laugh until no one can forget that this is what we leave behind when we go: the laughs.

Fredrik Backman

#11. He turned and looked her solemnly in the eyes. "Is it too much to ask for a happy ending?" She smiled sadly. "I don't think there are any happy endings left.

Walidah Imarisha

#12. Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex ...

Gustave Flaubert

#13. I am very happy with my life, but seven or eight months a year, I am away from home. I want to go home - that's the truth.

Adolfo Cambiaso

#14. His cock is big, his sexual preferences are exotic, and he gets off making me do things I'd rather not.

J.A. Huss

#15. I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.

Richard Rodney Bennett