The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the… — Frank Scoblete Copy Share Image
Uh... ," Ivy stammered, and I glanced up to see her eyes wide in consideration. "I'm kidding," I said. "It passed the… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
The title of Christian is a reproach to us, if we estrange ourselves from Him after whom we are denominated. The name… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Lately I’d begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints. — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regimen… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
I read the signs,I got all my stars aligned,My amulets, my charms,I set all my false alarms,So I'll be someoneWho won't be… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace's. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace's again. Take it and… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The Cabal is of two kinds, theoretical and practical, with the practical Cabala, which is engaged in the construction of talismans and… — Albert Mackey Copy Share Image
In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren’t.… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I'm not looking for much, I just want, like, a really nice guy who has, you know, like a job... and the… — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that… — Carly Pope Copy Share Image
St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
