Babits Mihaly J N S Quotes & Sayings

Before us fog, behind us fog, and beneath us a sunken country. — Mihaly Babits

You don't chatter half as much as you used to, Anne, nor use half as many big words. What has come over you?" Anne coloured and laughed a little, as she dropped her book and looked dreamily out of the window, where big fat red buds were bursting out on the creeper in response to the lure of the spring sunshine. "I don't know - I don't want to talk as much," she said, denting her chin thoughtfully with her fore-finger. "It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over. And — L.M. Montgomery

The White House approved an exemption in Obamacare coverage for Congress and members of their staff. Members complained that the Affordable Care Act will cost them thousands extra a year in premiums. Wait a minute. It's their bill. If it's too expensive, why did they name it the Affordable Care Act? — Jay Leno

I look like a biker slut from hell meets soldier of fortune pinup. — Laurell K. Hamilton

You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything. — E. M. Forster

Flowing water makes men meditative. They urinate with a sense of eternity like sailors. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

How do I speak Spanish? Not too well. Paz taught me a few words that, if people weren't nice to me, I could tell them a few things. I got to study with [chef] Thomas Keller, who we all love as a guy and Jim had a relationship with him at [his restaurant] the French Laundry. — Adam Sandler

Jesus gives us hope because He keeps us company, has a vision and knows the way we should go. — Max Lucado

Gandhi felt fascinated at knowing Christ. He met Christians, and felt let down. — Mother Teresa

He [Mihaly Babits] hoped that some god might offer a bed to the river of words which rose to his lips, so that it might flow between ordered banks to the sea, there to vanish. — Claudio Magris

There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse. — Warren E. Burger

Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife. — Laura Schlessinger