Daphnis Quotes & Sayings

Pale and massive, he absorbed time like a sponge. Moved something, wiped something, adjusted something, but the future never came. — Andrzej Stasiuk

Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort. — Pema Chodron

I have learned to write about things that are personal without objectifying anybody or anything, and that's been an important lesson for me. It's useful not to dump on people while simultaneously expressing a truth or a feeling if it's necessary, without diluting the intensity of the lyric. — Martha Wainwright

When you don't have resources, you become resourceful. — KR Sridhar

Adam stood up. It felt good to have identified the problem. That had always been the hardest part. With an engine, with school, with life. Solutions were easy, once you knew what was in your way. — Maggie Stiefvater

Your Prayer Life is a Reflection of your Relationship with God — Horace Williams Jr.

I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937 - on my one stock investment - because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool's procedure ... buying stock in other people's businesses. — Studs Terkel

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while. — Azealia Banks

You happened to me. You were as deep down as I've ever been. You were inside me like my pulse. — Marilyn Hacker

He turned his head and gazed at me, eyes dancing and blue, remnants of a smile dancing on his face.
How beautiful he looked. Unsullied by the world's darker secrets; privy to its innocent ones. I could almost believe he was inhuman and had never known anything beyond the profound simplicity of nature, tameless and wild, and the animal hearts that beat within each and every one of us. He was Pan and I was Daphnis. I never stood a chance. — Rose Christo

Just go out there and do it. It's not the easiest path. — Michael Ritchie

I had no desire of being professionally successful. No desire for material wealth. All I wanted out of life was Jiu Jitsu. — Chris Matakas

While Nape was making the bread and Dryas boiling the ram, Daphnis and Chloe had time to go forth as far as the ivy-bush; and when he had set his snares again and pricked his lime-twigs, they not only catched good store of birds, but had a sweet collation of kisses without intermission, and a dear conversation in the language of love: "Chloe, I came for thy sake." "I know it, Daphnis." "'Tis long of thee that I destroy the poor birds." "What wilt thou with me?" "Remember me." "I remember thee, by the Nymphs by whom heretofore I have sworn in yonder cave, whither we will go as soon as ever the snow melts." "But it lies very deep, Chloe, and I fear I shall melt before the snow." "Courage, man; the Sun burns hot." "I would it burnt like that fire which now burns my very heart." "You do but gibe and cozen me!" "I do not, by the goats by which thou didst once bid me to swear to thee. — Longus

The police mentality cannot regard a human being in terms other than as an item or object to be processed as expeditiously as possible. — Jack Vance