1416 Calle Quotes & Sayings

They were unfailing in their love for me, and most of the time they had gotten nothing in return. Maybe that last part was the proof that my mother was right. They only gave, and I only took. — Amanda Hocking

We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about: not with a state which makes war through wantonness, and abandons it through lassitude. We are at war with a system, which by its essence, is inimical to all other governments, and which makes peace or war, as peace and war may best contribute to their subversion. It is with an armed doctrine that we are at war. It has, by its essence, a faction of opinion, and of interest, and of enthusiasm, in every country. — Edmund Burke

There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars. — Tycho Brahe

Irish people will read anything as long as it's about them. That's what I think. We are our own greatest subject and though we've gone and looked elsewhere about the world we have found that there are just no people, no subject as fascinating as We Ourselves. — Niall Williams

It's a rare reader who doesn't go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live. — Norman Rush

Independence!" was a useful cry, and always saying we have not got it. — E. M. Forster

And, what was even more exciting, she felt, too, as she saw Mr Ramsay bearing down and retreating, and Mrs Ramsay sitting with James in the window and the cloud moving and the tree bending, how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach. Mr — Virginia Woolf

I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer. — Julian Casablancas

It states that the context of the question is such that a yes or no answer is in error and should not be given. "Unask the question" is what it says. — Robert M. Pirsig

Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world. — Lisa See

'Real Housewives of New Jersey' has taught me more about the nature of a vacuum in space than any of the demonstrations in my high school AP physics textbook. — Andrea Seigel

You've been quiet for awhile. What are you thinking about?" he asked, grinning at her.
"I was wondering if maybe you're a serial killer. — Marcia Lynn McClure

Generations of men are like the leaves.
In winter, winds blow them down to earth,
but then, when spring season comes again,
the budding wood grows more. And so with men:
one generation grows, another dies away. — Homer