Alpine Flowers Quotes & Sayings

I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it. — Babette March

Believe is a powerful word to see and to say. But that morning, I felt it. And feeling it was the best of all. I knew something wonderful was about to happen to me. I didn't know what, or why, or how. But I believed. — Natalie Lloyd

When you talk with people, one of the arguments they'll throw back at you is that the climate has always changed, and that is absolutely right. It's the rate of change that is the problem right now. It's changing so quickly that it exceeds the adaptive capacity of some species. — Michael Crimmins

What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research. — Jean Piaget

As you spend time in God's Word and understand his love, the Holy Spirit will create new desires within you to love and serve others like never before. — Chip Ingram

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. — Barbara Amiel

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be. — Agnes Smedley

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it. — Mark Udall

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story. — George Barr McCutcheon

Great talents mature slowly. — Lao-Tzu

I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense. — Siri Hustvedt

So many requests, always, from a lover!
None when they fall out of love.
I'm glad the water does not move
under the colourless ice of the river.

And I'll stand - God help me! - on this ice,
however light and brittle it is,
and you...take care of our letters,
that our descendants not misjudge us,

That they may read and understand
more clearly what you are, wise, brave.
In your glorious biography
No row of dots should stand.

Earth's drink is much too sweet,
love's nets too close together.
May my name be in the textbooks
of children playing in the street.

When they've read my grievous story,
may they smile behind their desklids...
If I can't have love, if I can't find peace,
give me a bitter glory.


1913 — Anna Akhmatova

away again.' 'You are quite right,' said the Chief. 'We will make it over — Leo Tolstoy