Gallop Quote by Malcolm Lowry

“He would be a consul no doubt by and by, at some foreign port, of the language of which he was ignorant; though if…

— Mark Twain

“To my shame, the name he gave was not one that conjured any feeling in me: not fear, nor revulsion, nor horror at a…

— M.C. Scott

“Servius Sulpicius and M. Tullius were consuls the next year: nothing worth mentioning happened.”

— Livy

I stayed only two days in the capital. I was welcomed by a cheering citizenry, who threw flowers at my head. It was disconcerting…

— Megan Whalen Turner

It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond…

— Ernest Bevin

“These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered…

— Plutarch

“And long afterwards, in moments of the greatest merriment, there would rise before him the figure of the little clerk with the balding brow,…

— Gogol Nicolai

“And he knew he would not be travelling home. If he had to wear a donkey jacket and wait for fifty years, then he…

— Antal Szerb

“Seeking more information, I walked through the market listening to the gossip and discovered that our new general, the man sent to quell the…

— M.C. Scott

And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The "word" did not "offer itself" in a take-it-or-leave-it fashion, any more than Caesar's heralds would have said, "If you'd like a new kind…

— N.T. Wright

and for a moment he held out his hands as if to steady himself or as if to bless the ground there or perhaps…

— Cormac McCarthy