Apropal Quotes & Sayings

To consider water on any scale was to confront a boundless repetition of small events. There were the tiny wonders: rain drops, snow crystals, grains of frost aligned on a blade of grass; and there were the wonders so immense it seemed impossible to get his mind around them: global wind, oceanic currents, storms that broke like waves over whole mountain ranges. p 46 — Anthony Doerr

I can never see fashion models,
lean angular cheeks, strutting hips
and blooming hair, without thinking of
the skulls at the catacombs in Lima, Peru. — Naomi Shihab Nye

We have a very limited time on Earth; the times we spent with the candles are always special and magical times! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When you give, give with joy and smiling. — Joseph Joubert

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness. — Buddha

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time. — Missi Pyle

Maturity is learning not to be run by your emotions. You control your emotions; they don't control you. — Anna M. Aquino

There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold. — Don Young

In a better world I would have kissed her over the ice trays and that would have been the end of all our troubles. But you know exactly what kind of world we live in. It ain't no fucking Middle-earth. I just nodded my head, said, See you around, Lola, and drove home. — Junot Diaz