Drumul Matasii Quotes & Sayings

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person - you have just enough of too much. — Jamaica Kincaid

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values. — Georg Brandes

We are falling back into allegory," said the Captain, interrupting him. "If you mean by all that that the body is the most solid of realities, then say so."
"No, not exactly," Zeno explained. "This body, our kingdom, sometimes seems to me to be made of a fabric as loosely woven and as evanescent as a shadow. I should hardly be more astonished to see my mother again (who is dead) than to come upon you around a corner as I did, your face grown older and its substance recomposed more than once in twenty years' time, with its color altered by the seasons and its form somewhat changed, but your mouth still knowing my name. Think of the grain that has grown and the creatures that have lived and died in order to sustain that Henry who is and is not the one I knew twenty years ago. — Marguerite Yourcenar

By her stare, this woman settled a solemn awe upon my heart, and I was frightened by the degree to which I felt humbled and by the intensity with which I felt loved, and I had to look away. — Dean Koontz

In a nutshell, the idea of Juche means that the masters of the revolution and the work of construction are the masses of the people and that they are also the motive force of the revolution and the work of construction. In other words, one is responsible for one's own destiny and one has also the capacity for hewing out one's own destiny. — Kim Il-sung

Tritons Trident! — Anna Banks

The water never stops, never gives up, and denies no faults in the path it takes," he explained, my eyes still focused down the ravine, "It moves silently, only a mere trickle to entertain itself as it causes a massive gash in the world. This, Zack, is true power. — Daniel "Z" Hastings

Don't bother with New Year's resolutions if you don't have the discipline to put a plan in place to actually achieve them. — Robert Kiyosaki

intentions are always speaking ten times louder than your actual words. What are they saying? — Mark Manson

A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants' unwillingness to work. — Pawan Mishra

Saying things like that to me makes this so damn hard. I'll always be here for you. But don't tell me you need me. — Abbi Glines

The child's cry
Melts in the wall.
And I
Am the arrow,
The dew that flies
Suicidal, at one with the drive
Into the red
Eye, the cauldron of morning. — Sylvia Plath