Banalities Middle Ages Quotes & Sayings

Harry. That's not how one talks to young ladies in the South. — Jim Butcher

Children bring life to the soul. — Red Phoenix

For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet. — Jermaine Jackson

Passionate living is the joy of existence. — Lailah Gifty Akita

From the warmth of her fondness for her horse she constructed a fragile and changeable thing that almost resembled courage. She hoped it would be enough. — Kristin Cashore

It was her clothes that did it...they clashed violently with the buff distemper of the walls. — Norman Collins

Just as love blinds us to imperfections in others, it magnifies those we see in ourselves. But if this is true, then the opposite must also be the case. We can take comfort in the fact that our faults will be invisible to those who love us. The success or failure of any relationship depends not just on how we feel about each other, but on how we make each other feel about ourselves. — Tonya Hurley

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves. — Samuel Johnson

The unusual thing about quiet is that when you seek it, it is almost impossible to achieve. When you strive for quiet, you become impatient, and impatience is itself a noiseless noise. You can block every superficial sound, but, with each new layer extinguished, a next rises up, finer and more entrapping, until you arrive at last in the infinite attitude of your own riotous mind. Inside is where all the memories last like wells, and the unspoken wishes like golden buds, and the pain that you keep, lingering and implicit, staying inside, nesting inside, articulating, articulating, through to the day you die. (p. 240) — Hilary Thayer Hamann

We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself. — Oswald Chambers

What good is a crow to a pack of grieving humans? A huddle. A throb. A sore. A plug. A gape. A load. A gap. So, yes. I do eat baby rabbits, plunder nests, swallow filth, cheat death, mock the starving homeless, misdirect, misinform. Oi, stab it! A bloody load of time wasted. But I care, deeply. I find humans dull except in grief. — Max Porter

If you really kill, you don't want to talk about it. — Emmanuel Jal

Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise. — Robert A. Heinlein

The things at the Village, they will be resolved or they won't. I know you want to hep Amber, and that's gut. But it's not your responsibility how things turn out." The tense bundle of nerves in Hannah's stomach relaxed. Was that what she'd been doing? Claiming responsibility for something she couldn't control? "Gotte will watch out for your freind." "Danke, Jesse. I suppose I was making myself too important, as if Gotte couldn't work things out without my help." "He did all right before we were born. He'll do fine long after we're gone. — Vannetta Chapman

Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are. — Myrtle Reed