"There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose."

-- Elizabeth Inchbald

#Loss Quotes #Sea Quotes #Land Quotes

“Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!”
“Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.”
“I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.”
“On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.”
“I am pretty controlled I have to say.”
“But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.”

Source : Alexandra Ripley (1992). “Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind”, Macmillan Reference USA
“It takes practice to use one's eyes, even when God has opened them. And there are some believers who never get beyond confounding a doctrinal statement of a truth with a living exemplification of that truth.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 113), 1895.
“The state team is committed to working with our federal partners in meeting the needs of Floridians who were affected by Hurricane Wilma. We want to be as thorough as possible in this vital endeavor.”

You may also like: