"Now that’s true poetic irony. I rush into……" — Franny Billingsley
"Now that’s true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert to stop me."
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67 Quotes by Franny Billingsley
Franny Billingsley has 67 quotes on this site.
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I explained we lost the porch to the flood. Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a…
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I don't know what it is, but I ache for it each day. It's as though I have eyes, but…
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The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks.…
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...if you don't argue, you can't give in...
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Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and…
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I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the…
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If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe…
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It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing – a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight,…
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It's one thing to keep secrets. It's quite another to lie.
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A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its…
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Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes…
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I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself…
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More Battle Quotes
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
— James A. Baldwin
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It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain…
— Gerry Adams
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Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking…
— Drew Barrymore
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You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally…
— Scott Adams
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Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam,…
— Annie Besant
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
— Ambrose Bierce
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir…
— Theodore Bikel
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness,…
— Buffalo Bill
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This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world…
— Tony Blair
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a…
— Erma Bombeck
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