2492 Walnut Quotes & Sayings

Legions of grotesques sweep under his hand; for has not nature too her grotesques - the rent rock, the distorting lights of evening on lonely roads, the unveiled structure of man in the embryo, or the skeleton? — Walter Pater

Celaena had a sudden moment of clarity then, as her hair ripped from her braid and the wind tore at her clothes. Of all the girls in all the world, here she was on a spit of beach in the Red Desert, astride an Asterion horse, racing faster than the wind. Most would never experience this - she would never experience anything like this again. And for that one heartbeat, when there was nothing more to it than that, she tasted bliss so complete that she tipped her head back to the sky and laughed. — Sarah J. Maas

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands. — John Ruskin

I am neither the handsomest nor the richest nor the most powerful, but I've had the greatest women in the world. — Oleg Cassini

To grapple effectually with even purely material problems requires more serenity of mind and more lofty courage than people generally imagine. No two beings could have been more unfitted for such a struggle. Society, not from any tenderness, but because of its strange needs, had taken care of those two men, forbidding them all independent thought, all initiative, all departure from routine; and forbidding it under pain of death. They could only live on condition of being machines. And now, released from the fostering care of men with pens behind the ears, or of men with gold lace on the sleeves, they were like those lifelong prisoners who, liberated after many years, do not know what use to make of their freedom. They did not know what use to make of their faculties, being both, through want of practice, incapable of independent thought. — Joseph Conrad

Danielle had never started a business. But if others can do it, so can I. — Jan Moran

There are only two four letter words that are offense to men. The words don't and stop. Well, unless they are used together. — Christine Zolendz

I'm so glad to hear you are a reader, and you found these books to help you work through things on your own. — Paula Gruben

Always maintain good relations with your public. — L. Ron Hubbard

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. — Jimmy Carter

If you don't hunt, you don't eat — Michelle Outlaw

The poor quality of Christian that grows out of our modern evangelistic meeting may be accounted for by the absence of real repentance accompanying the initial spiritual experience of the converts. And the absence of repentance is the result of an inadequate view of sin and sinfulness held by those who present themselves in the inquiry room. — Aiden Wilson Tozer