Aflame Penelope Quotes & Sayings

you rise at dawn in May you can savour the world before the pandemonium din of the Industrial Revolution and 24/7 shopping. — John Lewis-Stempel

I was willing to wait to have someone like you. Someone who has passed every test, has remained constant and true. — Jeff Wheeler

But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home. — Lynn Johnston

Then, after picking up his papers, Pierre began: "A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but the uplift of a beggar! — Ted Anthony Roberts

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. — Mahatma Gandhi

He tried to disguise how tired and ill he was, how depressing the thought of death was to him and how he spent his days and nights thinking up schemes of living beyond what the prognosis said. His hope, if not his heart, would find a way. — Noorilhuda

The final notes of the funeral march dropped like violets onto the tomb of the hero — Jose Saramago

Something should be said here - she should ask him where his home was, maybe compliment him on his choice of pants, or perhaps inquire if he'd mind if she climbed him like Mount Kadish and had her way with him right here and now. — Bethany K. Lovell

Newsflash for any of the current, past or future Survivors out there ... when you contemplate strategizing about the other team, the best idea is to shut up and keep it to yourself. You're welcome; this bill is in the mail. — Jenna Morasca

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist. — Dorothy Day

God protects us from Satan even at times when we are not aware of His protection. But how can we develop Jesus-like discernment? By Spirit-aided digestion of the solid food of God's wisdom. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images. — Galen Rowell

Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia. — Loretta Napoleoni

I work out with my trainer or do an hour of pilates at 6 or 7AM. I'm done by the time my household is awake. — David Beckham

All fiction is to some degree contrived. If it is not contrived, then it actually happened, therefore making it a stolen idea. Ideas and concepts in this world, in our lives, and in our imagination are much more finite than any of us would care to believe. — Connor De Bruler