5000km Look Quotes & Sayings

By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character? — Plutarch

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice ... — William Faulkner

Heroines did not pick their own battles - the ones they knew they could win. On the contrary, they managed what they had to manage, and they did not lie to themselves about relying on others for help instead of accomplishing the thing alone. — Gordon Dahlquist

The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion. — Pema Chodron

I am not going to be the person who completes you," he said, glancing at me and turning away. "You are one messed-up bitch. — Kim Harrison

If she could have achieved suicide, simply by willing it, she would have done it without hesitation. — J.K. Rowling

Shakespeare, I come ! — Theodore Dreiser

It gave her a creeping sense of impending aloneness, like she was some orphaned animal raised by do-gooders, soon to be released into the wild.
She didn't want to be released into the wild. She wanted to be held dear. — Laini Taylor

We are going to tickle some Aes Sedai under the chin, rescue a mule, and put a snip-nosed girl on the Lion Throne. Oh, yes. That's Aviendha. Don't look at her crosswise, or she'll try to cut your throat and probably slit her own by mistake. — Robert Jordan

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul. — Ovid