Ascendants And Descendants Quotes & Sayings

The candle glimmers but an hour. The night
Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know
The tragedy of human love and need?
Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face! — George Sterling

Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that. I used to think, 'I'm being fake,' but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable. — Evangeline Lilly

I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ. — Jan Hus

We cannot learn men from books. — Benjamin Disraeli

Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance. — Oliver Goldsmith

I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go through to make a film. I felt saturated, you know, like a sponge when it's saturated - it's not good. — Debra Winger

Dear Moon, Slowly enlighten my heart with your lovely, silvery, dancing, miraculous light. — Debasish Mridha

Dex isn't a big guy by any means. He's on the short side and toned but still thin. But he has unpredictable pit-bull tactics and one hell of a lippy attitude with strangers. For heaven's sake, never give that man a shovel. — Karina Halle

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade. — Leo Tolstoy

Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are. — Angela Cartwright

Everything is made of atoms. — Richard Feynman

I'd rather stand and face the wrath of a God than kneel and live in the shadow of myself — Stanley Victor Paskavich

So much of writing is discovery. Sometimes I feel like a rat in a maze, trying to discover the way out. My little heart is beating, and I'm racing down a path thinking, this is the route, it will get me there, as I turn this way and then that. — Will Hobbs

Every person in the world has to figure out what the right place for them is. It's okay to be afraid, as long as you don't allow the fear to take over your life. — Leigh Hershkovich

She missed sharing a small world with this one woman, this one person who would always love her more than anyone else could. — Caela Carter