Cilician Pirates Quotes & Sayings

Ephemeral spectator of an eternal spectacle, man raises for a second his eyes to Heaven, and closes them for ever; but, during that rapid second that is granted to him, from all the quarters of Heaven, and from the outer limits of the Universe, a consoling ray darts from each world and meets his eyes, to announce to him that some connection exists between him and infinity, and that even he is linked to eternity. — Xavier De Maistre

There's no such thing as a tax on happiness," Helen said, rubbing her forehead.
The countess regarded her with rueful sympathy. "My poor girl... it certainly can't be had for free. — Lisa Kleypas

I don't really exude that 'it' factor. — Kelly Clarkson

The way towards freedom from a situation often lies in acceptance of the situation. — Rachel Naomi Remen

Demons are coming, Vivian. They're finding ways around the rules. The genetic checks and balances have been broken, and the demon genome is going to repair itself. We're going to become who we were. Maybe not this generation, maybe not the next, but when it happens, the witches can either be ready, or they can be pixies being eaten by giant birds. — Kim Harrison

A fellow has to believe in something, Jay-such as the rottenness of humanity. — F Scott Fitzgerald

If there'd been anything decent in the house, anything approaching real ice cream, it would have been eaten long ago. I knew this, so I bypassed the freezer in the kitchen and the secondary freezer in the toolshed and went to the neglected, tundralike one in the basement. Behind the chickens bought years earlier on sale, and the roasts encased like chestnuts in blood-tinted frost, I found a tub of ice milk, vanilla-flavored, and the color of pus. It had been frozen for so long that even I, a child, was made to feel old by the price tag. Thirty-five cents! You can't get naught for that nowadays! — David Sedaris

There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now. — Kevin Bacon

There was a rough stone age and a smooth stone age and a bronze age, and many years afterward a cut-glass age. In the cut-glass age, when young ladies had persuaded young
men with long, curly mustaches to marry them, they sat down several months afterward and wrote thank-you notes for all sorts of cut-glass presents - punch-bowls, finger-bowls, dinner-glasses, wine-glasses, ice-cream dishes, bonbon dishes, decanters, and vases - for, though cut glass was nothing new in the nineties, it was then especially busy reflecting the dazzling light of fashion from the Back Bay to the fastnesses of the Middle West."
--from "The Glass-Cut Bowl" by F. Scott Fitzgerald — Diana Secker Tesdell

Peace comes to those who let others live in peace. — Indira Mukherjee

The chi is the central energy or power that we use in physical expression. When the chi is flowing properly in our lives, we can be very adept athletically. — Frederick Lenz

When promises are verified, God's truth is magnified. — Thomas Watson

I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

Every call of Christ leads into death. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Elena bounced up and down, pointing from side to side.
"What's that?" Gabe asked.
"It's my Star Wars dance," she said, bouncing and pointing.
After a few seconds, he joined her. Then Troy's friends picked it up. The dance traveled down the line. From the street, they must have looked like the Peanuts characters dancing. — Rainbow Rowell