Estrangularlo Quotes & Sayings

Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions were the ones who grew up to be both strong and civilized. Adolescents in such a community who were either too weak to control themselves or too contemptuous of society's norms to try usually ended up being either sheep or wolves- either mindless members of the herd or predators who took what they could and gave nothing. — Orson Scott Card

Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Please tell me there is coffee."
Aunt B grimaced. "They're already crazy. If I let them have coffee, they'd be bouncing off the walls. We have herbal tea,"
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I needed to find Julie, find her mom, convince a sociopath to donate some blood for the good of mankind, and deal with a tentacled atrocity swaddled in cloth and his rabid mermaids. I needed coffee. — Ilona Andrews

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it. — Gerry Mulligan

The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience. — Luke Evans

Only in the eyes of love you can find infinity. — Sorin Cerin

Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination. — Marianne Moore

Only that which is not said is sincere. — Fernando Sabino

story wasn't always pretty. Some would argue it was quite the opposite, but it was beautiful to me. — Claire Contreras

Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham. — Garrison Keillor

As for feminism, I am a womanist more than I'm a feminist. — Kola Boof

A live spent resisting temptations is a wasted life ... . — Paulo Coelho

[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence. — Aristotle.

Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands. — Joshua Roman

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions. — Friedrich Nietzsche