Aeterna Noctis Quotes & Sayings

Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart. — William Butler Yeats

When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony. — Charles Baxter

As someone once said, SINCERITY is the single most important human characteristic. So once you can fake THAT, you're made. — John Dolan

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it. — Lewis B. Smedes

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions. — Dean Kamen

The world may indeed be evil and ugly, I thought defiantly, it may be soiled with sin, but I also knew that when a man lifts his soul up to the vaults of heaven, reaching seraphic heights with the power of his voice, he becomes an eagle soaring, an instrument of the Holy Ghost — Adriana Koulias

The vast majority of us don't want to face the fact that we're in the middle of a sweeping social revolution. In sex. In spiritual values. In opposition to wars no one wants. In opposition to government big-brotherhood. In civil rights. In basic human goals. They're all facets of a general upheaval. — Johnny Carson

Ranger isn't my boyfriend. Ranger and I have a professional relationship." "Yeah, but that doesn't mean you can't play hide the salami once in a while. — Janet Evanovich

Turn your soul's vision to Jesus, and look and look at Him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from Him. — Lilias Trotter

I presented him with an African violet, which I saw as symbolically useful, though I'm not sure the others understood the subtleties. (African violets must be watered from the bottom, not the top, and this, I believe, is analogous to the writing of sonnets in the twenty-first century.) — Carol Shields

It's a sweet thing to sit quietly in the early-morning darkness and talk to God for a while. It's amazing what you gain from the conversation. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors. — Jim Kaat

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. — Elisabeth Elliot

THE AUTHOR GIVES SOME ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF AND FAMILY: — Jonathan Swift

Give generously - and receive graciously. — Valorie Burton