Archs Quotes & Sayings

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back. — J.K. Rowling

In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does. — Barbara Corcoran

Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening. — Richard Branson

You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating. — Frederick Lenz

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle. — Naguib Mahfouz

Our lives are also fed by kind words and gracious behaviour. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies. Our spirits are richly fed on compliments just as our bodies are on whole wheat bread. — Edward M Hays

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. — Ursula K. Le Guin

We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep - Blindness — Jose Saramago

He said that those five minutes seemed to him an infinite length of time, an immense richness; it seemed to him that during those five minutes he would live so many lives that there was no point in thinking about the last moment yet, so he made various allocations: he calculated the time he needed to say goodbye to his companions, and allotted some two minutes to it, then he allotted another two minutes to think about himself for the last time, and then look around him for the last time. He — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I turned to the novel, an artistic form which had in former days been neglected and had thus acquired a bad reputation, but which during the nineteenth century had developed and elevated itself to the ranks occupied by drama and the ancient epic. — Henrik Pontoppidan

If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience ... would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love? — Aberjhani

I suppose everyone has had that ghastly feeling at one time or another of being urged by some overwhelming force to do some absolutely blithering act. — P.G. Wodehouse

[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause? — Dorothy L. Sayers