Cowburns Quotes & Sayings

How does Love speak? In the faint flush upon the telltale cheek, And in the pallor that succeeds it; by The quivering lid of an averted eye
The smile that proves the parent to a sigh Thus doth Love speak. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family. — Dalai Lama

A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl - the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic. — Sergei Lukyanenko

There was no such thing as a marriage with one happy spouse. Both must be or neither. — Sherry Thomas

At some point, they must do a 'Borgen' tour in Copenhagen. Like the 'Sex and the City' tour, but on bicycles. — Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

There is no real lasting joy in self-seeking. — Victor Collins, Baron Stonham

I understood something else, too - that one kiss didn't change a thing. Anyone can give a kiss, after all; a kiss was how Judas Iscariot showed the Romans which one was Jesus. — Stephen King

The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be slothfulness in prayer. — Charles Spurgeon

I am happy with what I do. I'd love to be the manager of the Atlanta Braves, but they hired somebody this week. So I'll just have to be inordinately happy with one of the best jobs on the planet. — Robert Gibbs

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror. — Flann O'Brien

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good. — Sylvia Plath

Theseus: What is the crime for which you must pay by death?
Phaedra: My life. — Seneca.

To realize that everything in the universe is connected is to both accept our insignificance and understand our importance in it. — Jeffrey Fry

Beasts avoid the dangers which they see, and when they have escaped them are free from care; but we men torment ourselves over that which is to come as well as over that which is past. Many of our blessings bring bane to us; for memory recalls the tortures of fear, while foresight anticipates them. The present alone can make no man wretched. — Seneca.