Ardea Quotes & Sayings

The key word in her mind was home. Home is the one place where your own priorities hold sway. At home, you decide how you spend your time, how you share your space, and how you manage your possessions. Away from home, you don't. This loss of freedom was what people like Lou Sanders and Wilson's mother, Jessie, dreaded. Wilson — Atul Gawande

What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second? — Dinty W. Moore

I see a lot of homes that are supercool, and everything is very tasteful, but it's not warm. I'm really scared of rooms that look too serious. — Amanda Peet

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust. — James Madison

a city that took more from them than it ever gave back — Anne-Marie Casey

Wait! I'm not ready.
Tough shit, Monroe. You had a year to get ready.
Can we talk about this?
I'm done talking. It's time to fuck. — B.B. Reid

Destiny had decreed that the Gauls were still to feel the true meaning of Roman valor, for when the raiders started on their mission Rome's lucky star led them to Ardea, where Camillus was living in exile, more grieved by the misfortunes of his country than by his own. Growing, as he felt, old and useless, filled with resentment against gods and men, he was asking in the bitterness of his heart where now were the men who had stormed Veii and Falerii - the men whose courage in every fight had been greater even than their success, when suddenly he heard the news that a Gallic army was near. The men of Ardea, he knew, were in anxious consultation, and it had not been his custom to assist at their deliberations; but now, like a man inspired, he burst into the Council chamber. — Livy

I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious. — Claire Tomalin

family member with dementia was pleased and satisfied — Jennifer Ghent-Fuller

And when you are away, Gerald ... with ... her - oh, think of me sometimes. Don't forget me. — Oscar Wilde

The question is, did you get your life-changing experience?"
Amy looked at Matt and smiled. "I did."
Matt's entire heart turned over in his chest. "Damn," he said, pulling her in. "Damn, I love you."
"Watch the arm!" Josh warned.
"He's not watching that arm," Ty said as Matt kissed Amy again. — Jill Shalvis

I understand everything," he said.
"You understand nothing, but it really doesn't matter, since what you mean is, you're glad to see me, just as I'm glad to see you because no more loneliness."
"That's what I mean," said Fezzik. — William Goldman

To live either fully alive ... or in empty nothingness? It's the in between that drives us mad. — Ann Voskamp

The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear. — Thomas Merton