#clear

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #clear




The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.


Beverly Cleary


#boys #dating #etiquette #fifteen #humiliation

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.


Andrew Coyle Bradley


#calamity #called #clearly #considered #death

Trent’s chest rises with a quick inhale as his hands lift to grab mine and pull them out, placing them with a pat on the outside of his shirt. “Okay, you win. But don’t do that while I’m driving or we’ll end up in a ditch.” He looks over his shoulder again, adding in a soft, solemn tone, “I’m serious, Kacey. I can’t handle it.


K.A. Tucker


#k-a-tucker #kacey-cleary #kacey-trent #ten-tiny-breaths #trent-emerson

Most folks don't have but a few days to a week's worth of food in their houses at any given time. When they run out, they'll have to forage. Only the fools will forage in town. The smart ones will look on the outskirts.


Edward M. Wolfe


#food #food-storage #fool #fools #forage

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.


Charles Schumer


#almost #amazing #balances #been #checks

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.


Stephen Hawking


#clear #intelligence #long-term #survival #value

What’s wrong is that every morning and every night, I lie in bed wondering why you’re not beside me.


K.A. Tucker


#kacey-cleary #kacey-trent #love #sweet #ten-tiny-breaths

Oh well, thought Jane, that's how men are. He's probably taking it for granted. She found it very pleasant to be taken for granted by Stan


Beverly Cleary


#fifteen #love

The men were smashing windows and aiming their weapons through them. The driver had opened the door and was shouting for the women and children to get out and run and hide. But Ilina realized in some vague way that he never managed to actually say the word "hide." He really said, "Women and children, get out, get out, get out! Run and..." The clerk's wife thought it was odd that he had stopped in the middle of a sentence, and even stranger that she herself knew the word, heard the word "hide" in her head when the driver stopped talking.


Clark Zlotchew


#cia #dagestan #espionage-thriller #iran #novel

I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.


Haley Barbour


#american #american people #been #beginning #country