Apaziguar Quotes & Sayings

My abiding faith in the American people is undiminished. That's still what drives me every single day. — Barack Obama

I write poems to find out why I write them — Stephen Dobyns

The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness. — Herbert Spencer

When tempted, the shortest and surest way is to act like a little child at the breast; when we show it a frightful monster, it shrinks back and buries its face in its mother's bosom, that it may no longer behold it. — Francois Fenelon

The jury, having swallowed at one nauseating gulp the business of viewing the body, had settled into their places with that air of conscious importance and simulated modesty which belongs to those initiated into a mystery. — Josephine Tey

Wonderful, Annabeth thought. Her own mother, the most levelheaded Olympian, was reduced to a raving, vicious scatterbrain in a subway station. And, of all the gods who might help them, the only ones not affected by the Greek-Roman schism seemed to be Aphrodite, Nemesis and Dionysus. Love, revenge, wine. Very helpful. — Rick Riordan

I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first. — Patrick Ness

I'd hoped for someone who was remarkably intelligent, but disadvantaged by home circumstance, someone who only needed an hour's extra tuition a week to become some kind of working-class prodigy. I wanted my hour a week to make the difference between a future addicted to heroin and a future studying English at Oxford. That was the sort of kid I wanted, and instead they'd given me someone whose chief interest was in eating fruit. I mean, what did he need to read for? There's an international symbol for the gents' toilets, and he could always get his mother to tell him what was on television. — Nick Hornby

It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's
youthful ideals. — Paul Bourget

Great is language ... it is the mightiest of the sciences,
It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth ... and of men and women ... and of all qualities and processes;
It is greater than wealth ... it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music. — Walt Whitman

Skill is the child of patience. — Charles Soule

I have experienced deep despair, mental-ill health and attempt of suicide. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There's nothing more heart-breaking than watching your children suffer. — Rachel Boston

... allow me to be an old man for a moment and to remind a young girl who is used to being impulsive that there can be none of that anymore. — Kristin Hannah

Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion — Voltaire