Alexandre Herculano Quotes & Sayings

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface. — Alan Bennett

With Tommy, gift-giving is an art form. Whatever he bestows on you is more likely than not going to be something absurd and cheap and tacky, but the way he offers it always makes you feel as if you were receiving an oblation. I don't know how he does it. It's a bizarre kind of magic; he somehow makes you believe that the useless thing in his outstretched hands is actually a chunk of his heart that he's torn out, just for you. He holds it up for your inspection, and it glows between his fingers like a candle in a cave. And as if that weren't enough, he makes it absolutely clear that he doesn't want anything in return, not even your gratitude, so all you can do is stand there with a stupefied look on your face and humbly accept what he's vouchsafing you. — Bart Yates

The only possible paradises are those we have lost — Marcel Proust

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Perhaps, sir, for our purposes, sir, you shouldn't think of it as your mother abandoned you. Instead, perhaps think of it as she gave you up for adoption slightly later than usual. — Nathan Hill

Too many people want to have one foot in the world and one foot in the kingdom of God, and it is like straddling a fence. You are not happy either way. Declare yourself for Christ. — Billy Graham

He was never disturbed over why a thing happened. How it happened was sufficient for him. — Jack London

If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? — Chuck Palahniuk

Don't make your job your assignment. Rather, make your life assignment your career and job — Sunday Adelaja