Floramerica Quotes & Sayings

In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other. — George MacDonald

He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination with reality; he will look with contempt on his own unimportance, and wonder to what purpose he came into the world; he will repine that he shall leave behind him no evidence of his having been, that he has added nothing to the system of life, but has glided from youth to age among the crowd, without any effort for distinction. — Samuel Johnson

If there was a way out of this mess, he'd find it. If there wasn't, I would run with him until we got far enough away to start over. — Celia Aaron

We can't change what is coming. Something is always coming. — Sarah Blake

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss. — George Santayana

A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so. — Raymond Carver

I don't know what to expect out of my films. My first two films were with extremely talented directors, and they didn't work. And my next two films were with newcomers, and they worked well. So I've stopped expecting anything from my movies. — Sonam Kapoor

The choice between the ethical and the aesthetic is not the choice between good and evil, it is the choice whether or not to choose in terms of good and evil. — Alasdair MacIntyre

What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings. — James Russell Lowell

If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. — Ben Jonson

Design is nothing if not decision making. — Henry Petroski