Uomail Quotes

#1. I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

George Eliot

#2. Those who say I can, and those who say I can't - are both usually right

Will Smith

#3. Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.

Calvin Coolidge

#4. So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business.

Alex Chiu

#5. If you take a particle down, past neutrinos, you get vortexes, little whirlpools of energy. This is amazing, because what it really means, is everything is the same. Everything is one of those, in various combinations.

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

#6. There was a time, long ago, when the only peaceful moments of her existence were those from the time she opened her eyes in the morning until she attained full consciousness, a matter of seconds until when finally roused she entered the day's wakeful nightmare. She

Harper Lee

#7. I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.

Jo Nesbo

#8. Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.

John Derbyshire

#9. Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

Benjamin Whichcote

#10. So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.

Rose Tremain

#11. They had grown up together from childhood, and all along Edith had been remarked upon by every one, except Margaret, for her prettiness;

Elizabeth Gaskell

#12. May the Lord open, Janine would have replied, tonelessly, in her transparent voice, her voice of raw egg white.

Margaret Atwood

#13. Whipping, caning, chains, restraints, the cat-o'-nine tails and many other devices beloved of the Marquis de Sade are employed in more extreme sado-masochistic relationships. A spanking, though, s every girl knows, is more about pleasure than pain.

Chloe Thurlow

#14. It didn't take him long, and he pulled up nearly nose-to-nose with Ash as they came in from opposite directions.
"You shaved off your ... " It couldn't rightfully be called a beard, Brooks considered. "Face hair."
"Yeah, it got too hot."
"Uh-huh.

Nora Roberts

#15. There is one principle that should never be abandoned, namely, that the rider must learn to control himself before he can control his horse. This is the basic, most important principle to be preserved in equitation.

Alois Podhajsky