Ausonius Poems Quotes & Sayings

True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dying from disease were rising. So few potatoes had been planted that, even if they escaped bight, they would not be enough to feed the poor folk who relied upon them. More and more of those small tenants and cottagers, besides, were being forced off the land and into a condition of helpless destitution. Ireland, that is to say, was a country utterly prostrated.
Yet the Famine came to an end. And how was this wonderful thing accomplished? Why, in the simplest way imaginable. The famine was legislated out of existence. It had to be. The Whigs were facing a General Election. — Edward Rutherfurd

I'm a huge Joe Nichols fan, and he put this song out an album called 'Real Things.' I was excited for Joe when I heard it, thinking 'that will easily be Joe Nichols' career song.' I was even more excited when they got out of that album and they never released it as a single, because then I was like, 'Now that's gonna be my career single.' — Blake Shelton

The Steinway pianos of today are the finest I have ever played. — James Levine

The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can run a business any way you like, but you'll run it better if you build it around your strengths. — Duncan Bannatyne

Wouldn't this be tantamount to giving a butterfly a skeleton? — Haruki Murakami

1954. Smog prevents airplanes from landing and ships from docking for three days. — James Frey

It was so - oh, I wish language were more precise! The red was so beautiful!"
The Giver nodded. "It is."
"Do you see it all the time?"
"I see all of them. All the colors."
"Will I? — Lois Lowry

You can keep your mind open and use your imagination and be creative even when you're older. For kids, I definitely think keeping your mind open and using your imagination and being able to play pretend and that it's okay. — AnnaSophia Robb

If you have a great vision and are ready for a passionate mission, they you are a leader. — Debasish Mridha

Writing to corroborate what you already think is the essence of bad writing. — Victor LaValle

If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad. — Glenn Frey

O how wonderful life is, how miraculous, God made this and God made that", "how do you know he doesn't hate what He did: He might even be drunk and not noticing what he went and done tho of course that's not true — Jack Kerouac