Desenganos Quotes & Sayings

A solemn sadness reigns. A great peace is around us. In its light our cares of the working day grow small and trivial, and bread and cheese - ay, and even kisses - do not seem the only things worth striving for. Thoughts we cannot speak but only listen to flood in upon us, and standing in the stillness under earth's darkening dome, we feel that we are greater than our petty lives. Hung round with those dusky curtains, the world is no longer a mere dingy workshop, but a stately temple wherein man may worship, and where at times in the dimness his groping hands touch God's. — Jerome K. Jerome

When I go speak to these kids through my foundation and am able to sit down and tell them some of the things that I've been through, they can look up and relate to me, and they can understand the feelings I had that are similar to what they're going through and feeling. — Marshawn Lynch

She had an exciting job, several good friends, her cat, her peanut M&Ms, the mystery novels she was forever reading, and - well, me. — Tom Savage

It has been said that Delhi is not a city, but a collection of villages... There were Tamil villages, and Gujarati and Kannadiga, and over everything, like a blanket -- like a blankety-blanket -- a vast and spirited Punjabi joy in living that kept the city together and made it one, made it as much as was possible a city. — Vijay Nambisan

The lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man. — Patrick Ness

Perhaps the most instructive experience is to see the way governments all over the world are exclaiming, What are we going to do about the United States?! — Eric Mann

You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle. — Enoch Powell

Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way. — Peter Gay

Media ideologies about one medium are always affected by the media ideologies people have about other media. — Ilana Gershon

Sweetling, I'm not going anywhere except upstairs, where I'm going to make love to you till you pass out happy. — Avery Flynn

Poetry
even bad poetry
may be our final hope. — Edward Abbey

When snow melts, what does it become?'
It becomes water, of course'
Wrong! It becomes spring! — Natsuki Takaya

There is so much to teach, and the time goes so fast. — Erma Bombeck

If trusting in Christ is the only way to be saved one has to wonder about infants, small children, and those who are child-like who are incapable of exercising faith in Christ. — Robert Jeffress