Abigayle Claire > Abigayle's Quotes

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.”
― Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl

“The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.”
― Baroness Emma Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.”
― Ronald Reagan

“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“But rest assured I'll win. Because I'm going to kill you...
... with kindness.
And it's going to feel really weird for both of us.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Then verses float into my mind. Verses about rising for God's glory. Verses about loving my enemies. Verses about soft answers turning away wrath and kindness heaping coals on the head of an attacker.

Heaping coals sounds good.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”
― Nora Ephron