“They had half a mind to refuse me a passage.”
A Voyage Around the World, p. 462. (1726)
Source: Alice in Zombieland
“They had half a mind to refuse me a passage.”
A Voyage Around the World, p. 462. (1726)
Sylvia Day book Bared to You
Variant: I loved the way he kissed me, as if he had to, as if he'd go crazy if he didn't and had nearly waited too long.
Source: Bared to You
Julius Bahnsen (1830–1881) German philosopher
Quoted by Harry Slochower in "Julius Bahnsen, Philosopher of Heroic Despair, 1830-1881" (1932), The Philosophical Review, 41(4), p. 371
Otto Ohlendorf (1907–1951) German general
At the Nuremberg Trials. Quoted in "Valhalla's Warriors: A History of the Waffen SS on the Eastern Front" - Page 186 - by Terry Goldsworthy - History - 2007.
Jack Cady book The Night We Buried Road Dog
It got downright mystifying just trying to figure out which was worse. At nineteen, it’s hard to know how to act.
Source: The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993), p. 463
“He who refuses nothing…will soon have nothing to refuse.”
Martial book Epigrammata
XII, 79.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)