Bartalis Quotes & Sayings

Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds. — Stephen Crane

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety. — Plato

He waited for Stephanie at the foot of the stairs and when she made her way down he lost his breath. To him she was the most beautiful woman in the world, no matter what she wore, with make up or without. But the way she looked when she walked towards him, he was at a loss for words; he couldn't even remember his own fucking name. — Celeste Carrara

Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason. — Indra Devi

Wife? - rather a widow with her husband alive! Aye, I widowed that poor girl when I married her, — Herman Melville

This age needs rather men like Shakespeare, or Milton, or Pope; men who are filled with the strength of their cultures and do not transcend the limits of their age, but, working within the times, bring what is peculiar to the moment to glory. We need great artists who are willing to accept restrictions, and who love their environments with such vitality that they can produce an epic out of the Protestant ethic.... Whatever the many failings of my work, let it stand as a manifesto of my love for the time in which I was born. — John Updike

Self-confidence and self-seeking are the greatest virtues. — Lailah Gifty Akita

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. — Thurgood Marshall

The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence. — Saul Bellow