Carrascolendas Quotes & Sayings

A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above the tossing tree tops with withering leaves, and the smoky chimneys, is a poor thing for our eyes to gaze at, or our hearts to love, or our hands to toil on. — Alexander MacLaren

The Slow Club is playing,a band I like,all plucky and bitter-sweet and kind of offbeat.Like Finch,I think.Like us. — Jennifer Niven

Gets blamed for a lot of things, does the weather. Convenient scapegoat, if you ask me. — Martin Edwards

Her horizon seemed to her limitless. There were all the places she had not seen; — Virginia Woolf

Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments. — Georges Rouault

Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt. — Vaclav Havel

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer
history shows it's better if you're not
but you have to understand your badness. — Peter Abrahams

Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else. — Karen Armstrong

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam. — Richard Dawkins