We conservatives don't have a corner on saying no. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say.
You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.
A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man. (Inspector Miller)
The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job. What's his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?
Trying to solve the problem by creating more debt is analogous to trying to stop being an alcoholic by going on a bender down at the corner bar.
And as I walk round the park I always think, 'Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful. ' I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic.
Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner.
They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.
Freedom just around the corner for you, but with the truth so far off, what good will it do?
There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
That wind. I see it's blowing now. Furtive but commanding, it has dictated every move we've ever made. My mother felt it, and so do I - even here, even now - as it sweeps us like leaves into his backseat corner, dancing us to shreds against the stones. V'la l'bon vent, v'a l'joli vent. I though we'd silenced it for good. But the smallest thing can wake the wind@ a word, a sign, even a death. There's no such thing as a trivial thing. Everything costs; it all adds up until finally the balance shifts and we're gone again, back on the road, telling ourselves - well maybe next time
This is an exciting world. It is cram packed with opportunity. Great moments await around every corner.
I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.
And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never really noticed it before. Full of birdsong and summer perfumes, full of strange glimpses and intimations just out of the corner of my eye, of longings and sadness and undefined hopes. It has a name, this sweet disturbance. Its name is Lamorna.
Leading from the front: It's what built America. But these days, the federal government isn't at the front - it's cowering in the back corner of the room, ducking responsibility and hoping no one notices.
Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?
The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.
It was Adam, but he was too late. He couldn’t love me anymore. He would be so angry with me. I had to hide. He didn’t love me so he might hurt me when he was angry. When he calmed down, that would hurt him. I didn’t want him hurting because of me. There was nowhere for a person to hide. So I wouldn’t be a person. My eyes fell on the shelves that lined the far back corner. A coyote could hide there.
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.
The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.