Damascened Pistols Quotes & Sayings

Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties
one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened. — Virginia Woolf

In all history, art has been the food of the poor, — Cameron Jace

Blood isn't love — Cassandra Clare

He smells safe, too, like sunlit walks in the orchard and silent breakfasts
in the dining hall. And in the moments before I drift off to sleep, I almost forget about our war-torn city and all the conflict that will
come to find us soon, if we don't find it first. — Veronica Roth

I'm not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I've wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since ... — Lisa Kleypas

Maybe we should open a bottle of champagne," Maddy said, glaring at the two women. "A toast to keeping secrets . . . where would a family be without 'em? — Barbara Bretton

Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper. — Euripides

Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down. — Scott Baio

I could not look toward the future if I lived in the past. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better. — Tom Morrison

What do you think destiny is? A smooth path that never jostles you? No. When you walk in your destiny, you will crash and fall more times than you can count. But the secret is to hold on to God's vision for your life - and for the lives of those He puts under your charge. No matter how many times you fall, crash, and fail, you get up. You get up and face your obstacles. — Tessa Afshar

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason. — Ayn Rand