Alegreya Quotes & Sayings

13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. — Anonymous

Wagons rattling and banging,
horses neighing and snorting,
conscripts marching, each with bow and arrows at his hip,
fathers and mothers, wives and children, running to see them off
so much dust kicked up you can't see Xian-yang Bridge!
And the families pulling at their clothes, stamping feet in anger,
blocking the way and weeping
ah, the sound of their wailing rises straight up to assault heaven.
And a passerby asks, "What's going on?"
The soldier says simply, "This happens all the time.
From age fifteen some are sent to guard the north,
and even at forty some work the army farms in the west.
When they leave home, the village headman has to wrap their turbans for them;
when they come back, white-haired, they're still guarding the frontier.
The frontier posts run with blood enough to fill an ocean,
and the war-loving Emperor's dreams of conquest have still not ended. — Du Fu

It doesn't matter to me what you did, there are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential. What you've told me hasn't changed the way I think; I'll say again, I would be delegated to be your companion for the rest of your life-but you must think over very carefully whether I am the man for you or not. — Laura Esquivel

Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives. — Aaron Swartz

Lost means forever, it's gone. But misplaced ... that means it's still around, somewhere. — Sarah Dessen

Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life. — Eric Kandel

That's the beauty of being a comedian - it's the one job you're allowed to do that. We're lucky. We're really lucky. — Colin Quinn

We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do. — Tonya Hurley

What is your name?"
Why?"
So I can mark your grave... — David Gemmell

She might not be bound to him, but she was still his Shadow Girl. — Melissa Marr