Doncellas De Karmaland Quotes & Sayings

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. — John Cheever

As she stepped into the steamboat at Dover which was to convey her to scenes so new, Lucilla felt more and more that she who held the reorganisation of society in Carlingford in her hands was a woman with a mission. — Mrs. Oliphant

"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!" — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The best use of power is not to have to use it at all. — Kenneth H. Blanchard

Oh, child! Somewhere inside you, your future has already unfurled like one of those coiled-up party streamers, once shiny, shaken loose, floating gracefully for a brief moment, now trampled underfoot after the party is over. The future you're capable of imagining is already a thing of the past. Who did you think you would grow up to become? You could never have dreamt yourself up. Sit down. Let me tell you everything that's happened. You can stop running now. You are alive in the woman who watches you as you vanish. — Dani Shapiro

In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'. — Viswanathan Anand

We always believe that there's going to be some high, just around the corner that's going to pull us way, way, way up, where we'll stay forever. If our current romance doesn't do that for us, we'll look for a new one. When the giddy high of the first date wears off, we're ready for another fix.
There's no problem with loving something, we coupling up, with enjoying someone's company, and all the rest. But if you want to enjoy all that stuff to the fullest, the best possible way to do it is to stop looking for the big highs, peak experiences, and sweeping flights of blissful romance. All that stuff just causes its own counterreactions. Watch your own body and mind, and you'll see this for yourself. — Brad Warner

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed. — Lester Bowie

I am not a writer except when I write. — Juan Carlos Onetti

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token — Elbert Hubbard

There was a young man favorably endowed as an Alcibiades. He lost his way in the world. In his need he looked about for a Socrates but found none among his contemporaries. Then he requested the gods to change him into one. But now
he who had been so proud of being an Alcibiades was so humiliated and humbled by the gods' favor that, just when he received what he could be proud of, he felt inferior to all. — Soren Kierkegaard

Like men who have failed together, they wanted nothing more than to never see each other again. — Karan Mahajan

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. — Oscar Wilde

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of. — Henry David Thoreau