Rylee Thomas Quotes

You're pregnant?" I can't even believe the words I'm saying as I pull her toward me, and onto my lap. ~ K. Bromberg

His crying stops instantly the minute Ry cradles him in her arms. He knows. How simple is that? And if I thought I was sucker-punched before, the sight of her holding our son is the knockout punch. I'm looking down at his little face and hers next to each other, and shit I never expected to feel in my life surges through me, wraps around my heart, and fills it in a way I never thought was possible ~ K. Bromberg

Why would I want to be someone's beck and call girl? Predictable is boring, Ace. And from what I hear, you seeem to get bored real quick. ~ K. Bromberg

Do you want to talk about it?" I ask softly, afraid to pry but wanting him to share what deep, dark secret has a hold on him. Me playing Ana to his Christian. ~ K. Bromberg

My whole fucking world.

My Rylee. My son. My everything. ~ K. Bromberg

I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all these things? ~ Thomas Huxley

Being asked to play one of the butlers is like being picked to play for England. All you have to do is think of the great butlers from the past - Terry-Thomas in 'How To Murder Your Wife,' John Gielgud in 'Arthur' and Denholm Elliott in 'Trading Places.' ~ Mark Williams

Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise! ~ Thomas Carlyle

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. ~ Thomas Huxley

Fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism
something it is like for the organism. ~ Thomas Nagel

If things are the way they are, why should I try to make them look different? ~ Thomas Ruff

I prefer Offenbach to Bach often. ~ Thomas Beecham

Every single day has to be excellent. You gotta give it all you got! ~ Eric Thomas

Science will ... produce the data ... , but never the
full meaning. For perceiving real significance, we
shall need ... most of all the brains of poets, [and]
also those of artists, musicians, philosophers,
historians, writers in general. ~ Lewis Thomas

Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread. ~ Thomas F. Wilson

He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy,
shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers. ~ Thomas Szasz

The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own. ~ Thomas A Kempis

You're the only reason I exist. ~ Ashlan Thomas

Show the sun with a lantern. ~ Thomas More

Adventures are funny things. They always begin with the unexpected, but they always end wit the promise of adventures yet to comestoriai ~ Wayne Thomas Batson

You wait. Everyone has an Antarctic. ~ Thomas Pynchon

A Christian is a military person, he fights the Lord's battles, he is Christ's ensignbearer. Now, what though he endures hard fate, and the bullets fly about? He fights for a crown! ~ Thomas Watson

Drip and fling and pour color onto the glass. Then I push the paint around. You have to have some faith. If it looks like nothing, if you think you've destroyed what might have been a good painting, keep at it. If you've scraped all but a few streaks away, chances are those streaks will suggest something else. Don't give up. Don't be afraid of the mess. ~ Abigail Thomas

I farther assure this noble Duke, that I neither encouraged nor provoked that worthy citizen to seek for plenty, liberty, safety, justice or lenity, in the famine, in the prisons, in the decrees of convention, in the revolutionary tribunal, and in the guillotine of Paris, rather than quietly to take up with what he could find in the glutted markets, the unbarricadoed streets, the drowsy Old Bailey judges, or, at worst, the airy, wholesome pillory of Old England. The choice of country was his own taste. The writings were the effects of his own zeal. In spite of his friend Dr. Priestley, he was a free agent. I admit, indeed, that my praises of the British government loaded with all its encumbrances; clogged with its peers and its beef; its parsons and its pudding; its Commons and its beer; and its dull slavish liberty of going about just as one pleases, had something to provoke a Jockey of Norfolk [Thomas Paine], who was inspired with the resolute ambition of becoming a citizen of France, to do something which might render him worthy of naturalization in that grand asylum of persecuted merit. ~ Edmund Burke

Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent ~ Thomas Campbell

I'm not judging you. If you want to take a break to look at tree dicks, we'll take one. ~ Ashlan Thomas

When I'm home, I've got the kind of time that other dads who live there full time don't have. I can go and have lunch with my kids at school and that sort of thing. ~ Thomas Gibson

The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white - who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior. ~ Thomas Sowell

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish. ~ Thomas Starr King

Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities. ~ Thomas Keating

It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements. ~ Thomas Sowell

When the cardinal came to a closed door he would flatter it
oh beautiful yielding door! Then he would try tricking it open. And you are just the same, just the same." He pours himself some of the duke's present. "But in the last resort, you just kick it in. ~ Hilary Mantel

Hell is full of good intentions. ~ Thomas Gray

Discussions should always be held just before going to bed, your rear protected by sleep. How painful, after an intellectual conversation, to have to go about with your mind so stirred up. ~ Thomas Mann

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. ~ Thomas Jefferson

The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of wood - and that the end results will be no different than if people had voluntarily chosen the same action ~ Thomas Sowell

A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud. ~ Thomas Guthrie

The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help. ~ Thomas F. Wilson