Custance Chaucer Quotes & Sayings

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away. — Alan Moore

(for the setting of her beauty was always that - hasty, but apt) ... — Virginia Woolf

I was 8,569 miles away, 37 butt-numbing hours of travel across seven time zones in the last two days, or was it three? Amelia Earhart, eat your heart out. — Kristine K. Stevens

In an instant's compass, great hearts sometimes condense to one deep pang, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly diffused through feebler men's whole lives. And so, such hearts, though summary in each one suffering; still, if the gods decree it, in their lifetime aggregate a whole age of woe, wholly made up of instantaneous intensities; for even in their pointless centres, those noble natures contain the entire circumferences of inferior souls. — Herman Melville

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian. — Sherman Alexie

You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other. — Neal Shusterman

This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. — Emily Bronte

I'm sure everyone feels this way, but it's hard to have a proper opinion of yourself or how things are or how you expected them to be or how far removed they are from how you expect them to be. On the one hand, you're extraordinarily grateful and terribly excited, but on the other, I stop and go, "I wonder what the future does hold." — Dominic Cooper

A great book is a thing of mystery and beauty; it has the power to move you. — Neil Leckman

You don't need great skill to be a tough rebounder; being a rebounder is all about effort, determination, and physicality — Michael Malone

at last tears were all wept out and the little patient ache that was to be in her heart until she died took their place. — L.M. Montgomery

He declared he never stepped in front of the footlights without first saying to himself over and over: "I love my audience. I love my audience. — Dale Carnegie

When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other ... — Rudolf Steiner