Dragoman Quotes & Sayings

She had very much looked forward to a word in private with him. But she forgot, as she usually did, the silence that always came between them in these latter years, whenever they found themselves alone.

The queer sensation in her chest, however, was all too familiar, that mix of pleasure and pain, never one without the other.

She could have done without those feelings. She would have happily gone her entire life never experiencing the pangs of longing and the futility of regret. He made her human - or as human as she was capable of being. And being human was possibly her least favorite aspect of life. — Sherry Thomas

The fate of Men after death, maybe, is not in the hands of the Valar, nor was all foretold in the Music of the Ainur. — J.R.R. Tolkien

You are wilder than you know. — Alison McGhee

There is no such thing as an ex-exhibitionist. — Margaret Millar

Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion. — John Bunyan

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love. — Bell Hooks

The value of affection going up when it was in short supply — LaVyrle Spencer

My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me. — Elliott Carter

In life be your own person, think outside the box, chase your dreams, then follow your own path undeterred by the naysayers who follow the herd. — Aaron Lauritsen

Nothing can happen to you, unless God allows it to. — Sunday Adelaja

Has the world ended yet? — Peter Darbyshire

Caution is a spy's best friend; paranoia is his enemy. — Jack Barsky

A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain ... This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit ... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done. — Richard J. Foster

The upshot of pervasive public belief in the uncontrollable sexuality of teenagers, and even of pre-teenagers, is that parents arehalf-hearted in their efforts to supervise and control their children, even when they are filled with anxiety as to their children's ability to cope with a full-fledged sexual relationship. "How can we buck the tide?" parents say helplessly, often without making quite certain that the ocean they see is a real one and not a mirage. — Marie Winn

Born in Jerusalem, Wadie Said went from being a dragoman to a salesman in the United States and thence to a hugely successful businessman in Egypt. — Penelope Lively