Billeted In A Sentence Quotes & Sayings

A wise man is a student though he is a teacher. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm very lucky in that I still experience highs and lows and I think those lows are important, but I am not totally paralyzed and it keeps me from just complete state of paralysis emotionally and almost physically. — Sarah Silverman

Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway. — Baz Luhrmann

Whether in peace or in war, man generally speaking is the best thing that ever happened to the gods. — Jose Saramago

Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore. — Haruki Murakami

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort. — Piet Mondrian

For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught
To be contented with the least. — William Davenant

To keep life in his desolate, long-suffering soul, he had stored his mind with much profound learning. So now many poor devils went to him for advice, which he never refused though he gave it sadly. It was always the same: 'Do the best you can, no man can do more -- but never stop fighting. For us there is no sin so great as despair, and perhaps no virtue so vital as courage. — Radclyffe Hall

If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be. — Viktor E. Frankl

People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue. They also know that the real glory of dreams lies in their atmosphere of unlimited freedom. It is not the freedom of the dictator, who enforces his own will on the world, but the freedom of the artist, who has no will, who is free of will. The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control. Great landscapes create themselves, long splendid views, rich and delicate colours, roads, houses, which he has never seen or heard of ... — Karen Blixen

I spend more time being confused than not, I answered. — Haruki Murakami