I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. Copy quote Share Report a mistake Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian GrayLord Henry WottonHuman, PeopleLimitations
Sahtino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. Copy quote Share Report a mistake Mario PuzoThe GodfatherVito CorleoneFamilyBondsMeaningful Quotes
Yet one had ancestors in literature, as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them, and certainly with an influence of which one was more absolutely conscious. Copy quote Share Report a mistake Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to. Copy quote Share Report a mistake 84 Charing Cross RoadHelene HanffBooks, LiteratureNostalgiaReading
— You know, sometimes I wonder how things would've turned out if I had been the one raised by King George instead of my brother, you know, would I have been corrupt like him? — Never. — Same blood ran through our veins. — But your hearts are different. Copy quote Share Report a mistake Once upon a time Season 2 Episode 13 Snow White / Mary Margaret BlanchardDavid Nolan / Prince CharmingHeartFamilyInevitability, FateMeaningful Quotes
Way down deep... like where the souls sleep and dreams happen, where pain can't live because there's nothing for it to feed on... then a wedding is a bleeding together of those two souls. Like two rivers running together. All that water becoming the same water. Copy quote Share Report a mistake Charles MartinThe Mountain Between UsBen PayneMarriageUnityIntimacy
The Theory of Evolution, like the Theory of Gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on earth is not only solid science, in my view, it's also a soaring spiritual experience. Copy quote Share Report a mistake Neil deGrasse TysonEvolutionHuman, PeopleLife Quotes
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to «I hate to read new books,» and I hollered «Comrade!» to whoever owned it before me. Copy quote Share Report a mistake 84 Charing Cross RoadHelene HanffBooks, LiteratureReadingNostalgia
People are instinctively drawn to partners who are their near equal in looks. Copy quote Share Report a mistake The Jane Austen Book ClubJocelynIntimacyInstinctsPartnership
And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay. Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.Show full quote Copy quote Share Report a mistake The Bible. The Christian Old Testament. Book of Proverbs of SolomonThe Book of ProverbsLanguageOpposites