Quotes of: Graves Keyword

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Baltasar Gracian

All have a shadow over the earth but no shadow under earth or in grave.

Abidul Huda Chowdhury Suzon

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

W. Somerset Maugham

I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.

Wallis Simpson

Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Then you remember the dream,” Mencheres stated. “That bodes ill.”   The fear of that made my reply snappy. “Hey, Walks Like An Egyptian, how about for once you drop the formal stuff and talk like you live in the twenty-first century?”   T...

Destined for an Early Grave

You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from prison. He had yet to pay. Couldn't imagine why. "Yeah, I was hoping we could work that out." "The interest alone is going to kill...

Fifth Grave Past the Light

My fore-parts, as you so ineloquently put it, have names.” I pointed to my right breast. “This is Danger.” Then my left. “And this is Will Robinson. I would appreciate it if you addressed them accordingly.” After a long pause in which he to...

First Grave on the Right

We all have a certain knowledge about how the universe works. And when someone comes along and challenges that knowledge, we don’t know how to deal with it. We aren’t hardwired that way. It’s difficult to question everything you’ve ever thoug...

First Grave on the Right

The next thing I remembered was Reyes smiling down at me as the sun filtered into his apartment, his hair mussed, his lids hooded with the thick remnants of sleep. I stretched as those three little words that every girl longs to hear slipped from his...

Sixth Grave on the Edge

You want to stab me again, don't you?" He didn't look at all ashamed. "Think of it as testing the limits of your new abilities." I groaned. "I've created a monster." "I don't think someone who recently crawled from the grave should be throwing around...

Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode,’ we might believe them; but were they to cry ‘if I pronounce this spell over your beer it will go flat,’...

The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus

Jacob Marley: Why do you doubt your senses? Ebenezer Scrooge: Because a little thing can effect them. A slight disorder of the stomach can make them cheat. You may be a bit of undigested beef, a blob of mustard, a crumb of cheese. Yes. There's more g...

The Muppet Christmas Carol

[Solitary confinement] is terrible. That is terrible. You're in a grave. You can't do anything. Everything's brought to you and you're in a room all day, except to come out of the showers. So when I would come out, I would entertain myself by singing...

The Story Within Us: Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.

A Clash of Kings

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

Frank McCourt

Seek knowledge from the Cradle to the Grave

Al-Hadith: Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad

Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.

Silent in the Grave

I know I'm delicious. Nummy.....nummy. -Vlad

This Side of the Grave

Democrasy comes into grave danger when truth is no longer spoken to power.

Paul Bamikole

It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.

Patricia Clarkson