Asiatice Inalte Quotes & Sayings

she suddenly stood straighter. "He has dismissed me as his Companion, abandoned me just as he did all the other women who loyally served his father as Companions. It is not a shameful distinction. That he has done so speaks of who he is, not what I am."
p. 766: Serilla — Robin Hobb

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. — E.B. White

Love

Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?
What do you know of Love except the name?
Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,
and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.
Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal:
it has no interest in a disloyal companion.
The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God:
that root must be cherished with all one's might.
A weak covenant is a rotten root, without grace or fruit.
Though the boughs and leaves of the date palm are green,
greenness brings no benefit if the root is corrupt.
If a branch is without green leaves, yet has a good root,
a hundred leaves will put forth their hands in the end. — Jalaluddin Rumi

A long mission was ahead of them, and no one wanted to get on anyone else's nerves with unnecessary chatter. — Allen Steele

I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in knowledge which this one had. I have confidence in the equipment, the planning, the training. I suspect that on a risk-gain ratio, this project would compare very, very favorably with those to which I've been accustomed on the past 20 years. — Neil Armstrong

I love the consistency of working on television. You don't get that in working on film. — Nico Tortorella

I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me — Charlotte Bronte

We may not always finish what we start but God always finishes what He starts. — Rick Warren

Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would. — Laurie Beth Jones