12221 Quotes & Sayings

I have never described this to you before, not so much, I don't think, from lack of truthfulness as that, just naturally, one is not going to explain to people at large that from time to time one vomits up a small rabbit. — Julio Cortazar

Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement. — Jeremy Taylor

he was ever alone now, set apart from those around him, separated by a divide he could see across but never cover. To be without family was a strange, unseeable prison, the bars of loneliness and rootlessness enclosing ever more tightly as years and experience accumulated, isolating a male such that he touched naught and naught touched him. Darius — J.R. Ward

Cursed greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
Virgil — Debby Grahl

He got Strahan to print fifty advertisements to be run in 'country papers', along with 250 showcards for booksellers' windows. Although none of this was expensive, the final account that Strahan presented was for more than £800, a sum that was not fully paid off until almost four years later. The — Henry Hitchings

Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being. — Alexander Lowen

The word of God directs us in our work and way, and a dark place indeed the world would be without it. The commandment is a lamp kept burning with the oil of the Spirit, as a light to direct us in the choice of our way, and the steps we take in that way. — Matthew Henry

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it ... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. — Samuel Johnson

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom — Logan Pearsall Smith

Don't let death, Jacob reproves himself, be your final thought. — David Mitchell

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I knew why he chose the brown. It was the plainest of my dresses, certainly drab in his eyes, but all the better to contrast and showcase the red he'd have me wear tomorrow. I had no doubt he'd ordered the snow itself as the perfect backdrop, and surely he'd ordered the sun to shine in the morning so as not to deter the crowds. — Mary E. Pearson

I don't need any trinkets or pictures to remind me of my faith - all I need to do is stare out the window at the woods, and see how beautiful they are. — Lisa Kleypas