Cxci Roman Quotes & Sayings

I thought you were going to - you're standing under my window. Aren't you supposed to climb up here or something?"
"My ladder's at home. — Elizabeth Scott

I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms. — Michael Scott

Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals. — Vaclav Havel

But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humor which belonged to an older day.. — James Joyce

God can turn a life that is broken into a thing of beauty. — Mandy Fender

However long your stay on this small planet lasts, and whatever happens during it, the most important thing is that-from time to time-you feel life's sweet caress. — William Boyd

The spirit of quarrelsome comradeship which he had observed lately in his rival had not seduced Stephen from his habits of quiet obedience. He mistrusted the turbulence and doubted the sincerity of such comradeship which seemed to him a sorry anticipation of manhood. — James Joyce

Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy. — Henry Ward Beecher

When my stories were translated into other languages and received good reviews in the international press and won prizes, some Arab festivals and newspapers began to take an interest in what I had produced. This sudden Arab interest is a form of hypocrisy and nonsense. — Hassan Blasim

Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin. — Madeleine Stowe