Agrafes Quotes & Sayings

The most valuable lessons come not from teachers or textbooks, but from life experience. — Charles F. Glassman

If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time, you are not preaching the gospel at all. — Martin Luther

Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed. — Nhat Hanh

He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon — George R R Martin

To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell in forms, andflatter and study effect only more finely than the rest. — Henry David Thoreau

Their lives spun off the tilting world like thread off a spindle, breakfast time, suppertime, lilac time, apple time. — Marilynne Robinson

I was feeling like an old puzzle that someone put away, the kind that's missing pieces so it never gets looked at. It isn't until I came across the woman that now holds my last name that I see it clearly. She's the collection of pieces that are missing from my box. She completes it and turns it into the most beautiful picture. — Melyssa Winchester

What I want is not to become a status symbol, but to give beauty at a price. — Elsa Peretti

All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity. — George Bernard Shaw

I can give or take elephants; I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They'd be one of the few things that would fit if we were lucky enough to live in a world that's black or white. — Jodi Picoult

It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one's own body ... On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth. — George Orwell