Entrancing Lyre Quotes & Sayings

Never eat at a Chinese restaurant named Mama Teresa's Trattoria. — Joy Behar

The real truth must sometimes be protected by a labyrinth of lies -Vorbis- — Terry Pratchett

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside. — Joseph Brodsky

Not all things that fall down break. Some develop wings. — Neelam Saxena Chandra

Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life - have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel. — Todd English

I do not always pray, nor do I always meditate on the Law of the Lord and struggle continually with sin, death, and the devil; but I put on my clothes, I sleep, I play with the children, eat, drink, etc. If all these things are done in faith, they are approved by God's judgment as having been done rightly. This — Martin Luther

He felt his heart was going to explode, his body burned while his mind tried to reconstitute the ashes of who he once had been. — Jorge Silva Rodighiero

Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth. — Plutarch

If you're sorry, folks can tell. No use piling on the verbiage. — Emma Donoghue

A similar semianarchy burst out in parts of Central Asia and the Balkans in the 1990s, when the communist federations that had ruled them for decades suddenly unraveled. One Bosnian Croat explained why ethnic violence erupted only after the breakup of Yugoslavia: "We lived in peace and harmony because every hundred meters we had a policeman to make sure we loved each other very much."33 — Steven Pinker

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know. — Russell Baker

Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt. — Henry James

One day the singers will make all of us immortal. — George R R Martin

Life is love, heartache and strain,
Yet the strength to overcome it all keeps me sane. — O.C.