Bornelund Quotes & Sayings

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune. — Aesop

There is no architect
Can build as the Muse can;
She is skilful to select
Materials for her plan. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I suddenly felt in myself all the weight of Europe: the weight of deliberate purpose in all our actions. I thought to myself, 'How difficult it is for us to attain to reality ... We always try to grab it: but it does not like to be grabbed. Only where it overwhelms man does it surrender itself to him. — Muhammad Asad

And the reason you play American Football, Hiruma-san?"
"Because it's fun."
(Translated) — Riichiro Inagaki

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. — Paul Cezanne

Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true tragedies, only lessons. And there are no problems, only opportunities waiting to be recognized as solutions by the person of wisdom. — Robin Sharma

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book. — Alec-Tweedie

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. — John Donne

It's your panties; they're pulling me in," he grinned. Oh no he didn't. "How can they be? I'm not wearing any. — Dawn Doyle

She knew suddenly that a woman could change her whole life and uproot her existence with one choice. — Kristin Hannah

He's got that way of believing his opinion is the truth, but he's not disagreeable about it. He's too sure he's right to bother being disagreeable. — Mary Ann Shaffer

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I brushed it until it shone and looked somewhat like it used to look,
only far thinner, and less glorious. — V.C. Andrews