Auctoriele Quotes & Sayings

The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple, over the great river I could see through a sombre gap glittering, glittering, as it flowed broadly by without a murmur. All this was great, expectant, mute, while the man jabbered about himself. — Joseph Conrad

The English landscape at its finest - such as I saw this morning - possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations, however more superficially dramatic, inevitably fail to possess. It is, I believe, a quality that will mark out the English landscape to any objective observer as the most deeply satisfying in the world, and this quality is probably best summed up by the term 'greatness.' — Kazuo Ishiguro

What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin. — Swami Vivekananda

We have to train ourselves to use words accurately. And there's so much loose Christian talk, for which I've no doubt been as guilty as any. — N. T. Wright

You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing, you have rendered your country weaker against a foreign foe; suppose you have demoralized thousands of your fellow-countrymen, and have sown discontent between one class of society and another, your article is tolerably dear, I take it, after all. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda. — Denis McDonough

She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes. — Anne Bronte