Yes, the setting (Dartmoor) is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men. Sherlock Holmes
Do you think we find Jesus, or does He find us?" (140+Likes on FB)
I’m arguably the least real of all my characters, a state of affairs for which I make no apologies, being, indeed, altogether proud of the fact.
Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
Ordinarily, her love affairs are entered into skittishly, sometimes reluctantly. She doesn't dive into bed but flutters in like a wayward moth.
...a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?
He had always felt that he lived on the edges of life, Constantine realized, watching everyone else living, sometimes helping them do it.
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.
Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?
(Georgie) Why is it that you always want to run after the one that goes off in a huff, and push away the one who is clinging to you?
Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.
I would feel much better about this whole affair if you would slap me and get it over with. I know you want to.
Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.
Mothers do not have love affairs. Before their children they have dreams, and after their children they have delusions. If the father is involved somewhere, they have fantasies.
POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!
There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair.
The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.
Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.
I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.
