Flamand Roses Quotes & Sayings

People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

Before Gabe could react, he watched helplessly as Rachel slipped backwards and out of sight into the mountainside, a crumbling wall now the only thing he could see.
"Rachel!" Gabe shouted, rushing forward. Before Gabe could reach her Haim, being closer to where she had fallen through, leapt into the gaping hole after her. The group now only heard Haim's cries echoing in the darkness as they drifted further away. — Wendy Owens

The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But what will become of us if he marries and and begets other suns? — Aesop

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place. — Annabelle Selldorf

May God deliver humankind from power of darkness into the wonderful light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He had a wild yellow beard and long, tangled hair that stood out from his head in a way that made it seem too large for his shoulders, though they were twice the width of mine. But these were not the things I noticed first. Nor, I think, the things that anyone would notice first. Before anything else, I saw his eyes: They were huge, and yellow as gold. And after that, I saw the way he moved. Cim Glowing is beautiful, and walks with liquid grace; but sometimes she looks clumsy beside him. I think I had guessed who he was before she called his name. "Ketin," she said, and raised the endieva wand as though to strike, backing away until her shoulders were against the wall. "Yes, Ketin," the bearded man said. His voice was like a storm five kilometers off. — Gene Wolfe

We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere. — Scott Sanders

Has not heaven an ear? Is all the lightning wasted? — Thomas Middleton

Trying to rely on the sheer good luck of avoiding bad outcomes indefinitely would simply guarantee that we would eventually fail without the means of recovering. — David Deutsch

In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface. — Hippolyte Taine

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also. — Mahatma Gandhi

All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish. — Aldo Leopold

The best guide in life is strength. — Swami Vivekananda