"Go and see whether the Doctor is about,â€™ said Jack, â€˜and if he is, ask him to look in, when he has a moment.â€™ Which he is in the fish-market, turning over some old-fashioned lobsters. No. I tell a lie. That is him, falling down the companion-way and cursing in foreign."

-- Patrick O'Brian

#Lying Quotes #Fall Quotes #Doctors Quotes

“I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.”
“There is only a single step between impurity and purity.”
“We know who is out there as far as available quarterbacks, but in reality, no one would be more prepared or capable as a No. 2 at this point than Dan. He got more snaps in the preseason than any of our quarterbacks and continues to get better.”
“The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.”
“In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected.”
“The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the quantity of taxes collected every year to pay the interest. If this quantity continue the same, the burden of the national debt is the same to all intents and purposes, be the capital more or less.”
“Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.”
“My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.”

Source : Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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