Clamide Quotes & Sayings

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'. — Max Beerbohm

This is what reading is like to me. It's finding a spring in the midst of a barren land. Just when I think I might up and die of thirst, I stumble onto this fresh, cold water, and I'm suddenly given this new life because I can-and do-drink to my heart's content. — Beverly Lewis

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody. — Natalia Ginzburg

Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word "anarchy" was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth. — Errico Malatesta

That's what scares me the most, Paul. That I'll just pass through life and all the people I know will just disappear, without a trace, without me ever telling them how much they mean to me, no matter how small the time spent was or how great the friendship was. That they'll be gone and they'll forget me and I'll end up with nothing."
I saw in my head Charley laughing, Charley sticking his head out the window and screaming, Charley playing a video game so intensely he was a foot from the screen. Moments flashed before my eyes in a quick, unrelenting sequence.
I shook my head. "I know. Believe me, I know. — J.C. Joranco

The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require. — Anne Enright

Squeezing it in my palm, I prayed, Please, God, let this seed you planted in me bear fruit. — Sue Monk Kidd

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves. — Oliver Goldsmith