Acropolisstorage Quotes & Sayings

Jem's not quite thirteen ... no, he's already thirteen - I can't remember. Anyway, it'll come before county court. — Harper Lee

Their love was so forbidden that their very touch could wrap a hangman's noose around them. — Victoria Sue

My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions. — Sigmar Gabriel

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self - never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted. — George Eliot

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps — Rohinton Mistry

looked around, trying to imagine what it'd be like to work there. The furniture was trendy but functional, and plants gave the area a personal touch. The walls were painted a warm off-white, and they were decorated with framed ads that Elle recognized immediately. Geometric-patterned rugs covered much of the floor. Taken individually, none of it was really her — Cleo Peitsche

You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion — Dorothea Dix

I know if I died tonight, I would die a happy man at peace with myself knowing Gloria's story would finally be told - a mysterious and astonishing story that defies the timeworn precepts of modern psychology and psychiatry - where insanity, genius, the metaphysical, and the mystery of life come together to beguile and confound our contemporary understanding of the mind and its limitless powers to heal.
Dr. Adam Jaxon — Linden Morningstar

Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best. — Spencer W. Kimball

Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean uptight incompetent bully comes naturally to me. — John Cleese