Allestree Quotes & Sayings

the heavens raped
from our misuse of love — A.P. Sweet

O You who are mad about Your creature! true God and true Man, You have left Yourself wholly to us, as food, so that we will not fall through weariness during our pilgrimage in this life, but will be fortified by You, celestial nourishment — St. Catherine Of Siena

Such an easy thing, to be liked. All you had to do was make sure people didn't know you. — K.J. Charles

Was this what peace felt like? It'd been so long that it was hard for her to recognize it when it sneaked up on her. — Laurie Tomlinson

You were too young back then to understand how much you would later forget - and too locked in the present to realize that the person you were writing to was in fact your future self. So you put down the journal, and little by little, over the course of the next forty-seven years, almost everything was lost. — Paul Auster

People who love themselves, don't hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer. — Dan Pearce

He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God? — Swami Vivekananda

That very breath wherewith they utter their complaints is a blessing and a fundamental one too for if God would withdraw that they were incapable of whatsoever else either have or desire. — Richard Allestree

In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral life. To be marooned, to be shut up in a solitary cell, to inhabit a lighthouse, or to camp alone in a forest, these have always seemed to me afflictions too heavy to be borne, even in imagination. A state in which conversation exists not, is for me an air too empty of oxygen for my lungs to breathe it. — Edmund Gosse

I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike. — Jeremih

When I do my own makeup, I keep things pretty simple. — Jordana Brewster

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem. — Washington Irving

There are two things a Highlander likes naked, and the other one is Malt Whisky — R. H. Bruce Lockhart