Campire Quotes & Sayings

The language of distinction ceases to be available; is no longer available. We must search CD Rom for meanings which once were clear, but now are obscure. The words are too big for the narrow column of the contemporary newspaper. We are all one-syllable people now, two at most. So we mumble and stumble into our futures. But it is still our task and our reward to scavenge through the universe , picking up the detritus of lost concepts, dusting them down, making them shine. Latin was the best polishing cloth of all, but we threw it away. — Fay Weldon

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good. — John Steinbeck

And that is the story of the boy who cried "Dragon!"
Of course, when dragons sit around the campire at night or tuck their children into bed, they tell the story of the dragon who cried "Boy! — Mike Resnick

You cannot find replacements for everything. Few things happens only once in your life time. So value everything that you got. — Giridhar Alwar

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness. — Hermann Ebbinghaus

Virtue is to herself the best reward. — Henry More

It makes me happy to work. And it makes me a better mother to be a happy person. — Cheryl Hines

To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever. — Katherine Mansfield

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories. — Saki

He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us that nations of law then forgot justice and let the law become a Game, a Game in which the moves and the winning were more important than truth. He told us to seek justice rather than the Game. — Sheri S. Tepper

One of the most marvelous features of Canton is the city of house boats, floating and stationary, in which about a quarter of a million people live and, it may with truth be added, are born and die. This population is quite distinct in race from the land population of Canton, which looks down upon it as a pariah and alien caste. — Isabella Bird

Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry ... — Primo Levi

I have a personal trainer who comes over at least four times a week and kicks my butt. I get so sore that I can't even walk. — Eva Longoria