Devuelto English Translation Quotes & Sayings

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence. — Bruce Chatwin

All a poet can do today is warn. — Wilfred Owen

Sometimes theft can be as simple and direct as a fist in an unsuspecting face, and sometimes it can be as complex as a military operation. — Michael McClung

'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters. — Miriam Toews

Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths. — L.M. Montgomery

The biggest disease in North America is busyness. — Thomas Merton

To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

I do not understand why you would go out of your way to hurt each other, when life can already hurt so much. — Pleasefindthis

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell. — John Milton

In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure. — Hugh Bonneville

Any day you wake up, maybe you die. — Robert Jordan

You can't?" Cyprian barked out a laugh. "The Bloody Baroness does whatever she wants. Even if it means stealing a starship in the middle of the night, crashing it into the side of a mountain, and slaughtering an innocent girl in the process. — Sasha Alsberg

Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye. — Ray Bradbury

If we can't "love the sinner; hate the sin" then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ but still hate the sin remaining. — Timothy Keller