Bonato Stone Quotes & Sayings

To know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother. — Elizabeth Goudge

A good title never hurts a book. — Winna Efendi

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops. — Erwin Rommel

Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike oak-trees to the centre, round which all arrange themselves the best they can. But the old statesman knows that society is fluid; there are no such roots and centres; but any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement, and compel the system to gyrate round it, as every man of strong will, like Pisistratus, or Cromwell, does for a time, and every man of truth, like Plato, or Paul, does forever. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job. — Alex Ferguson

Primroses, the Spring may love them; Summer knows but little of them. — William Wordsworth

If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end. — A.C. Grayling

To Succeed You Must Read — A.J. Briscoe

I want to laugh and cry and scream and run and I can't choose which to do first. — Tahereh Mafi

I hunger to commit the act of touch. — Margaret Atwood

Although to be driven back upon oneself is an uneasy affair at best, rather like trying to cross a border with borrowed credentials, it seems to me now the one condition necessary to the beginning of self-respect. Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions. — Joan Didion

A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence ... defines what can and cannot be done to her. — John Berger