Basques History Quotes & Sayings

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage. — Thomas De Quincey

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness. — Baltasar Gracian

I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do. — David Tennant

Some readers are tempted to ignore the challenges of their own lives and to live completely in the alternative reality of books. This can be dangerous and sinful, a rejection of the real world in which God has placed us. — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

I am young and beautiful ... at every age. — Louise Hay

Outside there was not a sound. The house had never been this — David Walliams

Listen to me, Blaire. If you try to go anywhere I will chase you down. I will become your shadow. I won't let you out of my sight because I can't live without you. I made so many damn mistakes with you I don't even want to try and count them but I am going to start making things right from here on out. — Abbi Glines

Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City ... Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future. — Anatole France

Men have the blood of their fathers and the passions of their mothers, in the same sense that women have the blood of their mothers and the passions of their fathers. We often find ourselves trapped in life when we fail to balance the two. The most unusual of men are those who are haunted by the warped blood of their fathers and the untamed passions of their mothers. They become either the legends of the legends that mankind remembers for generations or they end up as the fools of their time, — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. — Victor Hugo

She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise. — Homer

Sometimes you take all my words away from me. — Amie Kaufman

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. — Mark Haddon

I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have. — Dante Hall