Ascanius Aeneid Quotes & Sayings

That was what counted, she told herself: those unexpected moments of appreciation, unanticipated glimpses of beauty or kindness - any of the things that attached us to this world, that made us forget, even for a moment, its pain and its transience. — Alexander McCall Smith

It was his experience that life worked under the same guidelines as a capitalistic society. In order to get what you wanted, it was usually necessary to give up something in return. Sometimes gaining what you defined as everything meant losing what you most needed. — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

Do you have any idea how stubborn you can look ? Our children better never give me that look, althought I won't mind if they give it to you. You'd deserve it. — Christine Feehan

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history. — Nelson Mandela

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. — W. Somerset Maugham

Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself. — Paulo Coelho

These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow, stolid ways, you would think them perfectly earth; but ethereal fire is all the while working in them, and bursing out in most unexpected jets of poetry and sentiment, like blossoms on a cactus. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Sermon on the Mount is not some unattainable goal; it is a statement of what will happen in me when Jesus Christ has changed my nature by putting His own nature in me. Jesus Christ is the only One who can fulfill the Sermon on the Mount. — Oswald Chambers

Most people have no idea what Cabo Verde is or even where it is to mention, so I definitely want to make people aware of this beautiful culture. — Aeriel Miranda

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper. — Daphne Zuniga

Art is not in some far-off place. — Lydia Davis

You think you are simply resting, the better to act when the time comes, or for no reason, and you soon find yourself powerless ever to do anything again. — Samuel Beckett

I had no right to see them this way. — Tobias Wolff