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Diana Gabaldon

"A cold supper, were you thinking? I asked dubiously. I was not, he said firmly, I mean to light a roaring fire in the kitchen hearth, fry up a dozen eggs in butter, and eat them all, then lay ye down on the hearth rug and roger ye 'till you - is that all right? he inquired, noticing my look. 'Til I what? I asked fascinated by his description of the evening's program. 'Til ye burst into flame and take me with ye, I suppose, he said, and stooping, swooped me up into his arms and carried me across the darkened threshold."

-- Diana Gabaldon

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Fire Quotes

“Life is not a plot; it's in the details.”
“Nefarious. This is what we get when we hire a Yale boy.â€ â€œYou missed sacrosanct earlier. And taciturn and glowering,â€ Jack said. â€œWhatâ€™s glowering?â€ â€œMe, apparently.â€ Wilkins pointed. â€œNow that has to be a joke.â€ He turned to Davis. â€œYou heard that, right?â€ Davis didnâ€™t answer him, having spun his chair around to type something at his computer. â€œLetâ€™s see what Google saysâ€¦ Ah â€“ here it is. â€˜Glowering: dark; showing a brooding ill humor.”
“I think fans of the sport have a good understanding now of how fit Formula One drivers need to be.”
“There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.”
“Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.”
“An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... with a body of sacred documents and heroes.”
“Indeed the three policy pillars of the neoliberal age-privatization of the public sphere, deregulation of the corporate sector, and the lowering of income and corporate taxes, paid for with cuts to public spending-are each incompatible with many of the actions we must take to bring our emissions to safe levels.”
“When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.”

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