Baila Morena Quotes & Sayings

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life. — Agnes Repplier

Family tends to be one of the recurring themes in my fiction. — Sharon Shinn

Be honest, how hideous do I look?"
He took another step back and pursed his lips.
"That bad, huh?" I muttered.
No, no Bella. Actually ... " He seemed to be struggling for the right word. "You look ... sexy."
I laughed out loud. "Right."
Very sexy, really. — Stephenie Meyer

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music. — Martin Luther

Maybe she doesn't want to understand things she doesn't think she can change anyway. Maybe sometimes you just have a couple of rotten choices. Like you can fail to comprehend the world you've got, or you can see it as this ugly, evil, dangerous place and not be able to do a damn thing about it. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it. — Jean-Baptiste Colbert

POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation. — Ambrose Bierce

It feels great to be home, great to be back as a part of the community. — Brian Jordan

God is a luxury I can't afford. — Martin Landau

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul. — Walt Whitman

Do you want to know what General Putnam is thinking? It's this. He's thinking that he can't win the war if he doesn't keep the people on his side. He's thinking that he can't keep the people on his side if the troops are running amok among the civilian population - raping the women, stealing cattle, burning houses. He is determined to scare the wits out of the troops to keep them in line. And he's thinking that it doesn't matter very much who he executes to do it. So many men have died, so many mothers have wept, so many brothers and sisters have cried. He is thinking that in the long run if he executes somebody, he'll shorten the war and save more lives. It doesn't matter to him very much who he executes; one man's agony is like another's, one mother's tears are no wetter than anybody else's. And that's why he's going to have Sam shot. — James Lincoln Collier

I broke my heart for every gain, to taste the sweet I faced the pain. — Whitney Houston

What are you chopping up?"
"The trinity: onions, green peppers, and celery. Etouffee's going in the pot. Dune and Nate are on the way back from their consults, and they're bringing crawfish. So," he said, scraping bits of cut vegetables from his knife onto the side of the stainless-steel pan, "final judgement's on the way. — Myra McEntire

At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in. — Rose Byrne

Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions - most of them taking me further away from my Somali roots and steadily toward the enlightened mentality of Western democracy. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali