Frases Fresas Preppy Quotes & Sayings

Had the Battle of Franklin ever really ended? Carrie walked her cemetery, and around her the wounds closed up and scarred over, but only in that way that an oak struck by lightning heals itself by twisting and bending around the wound: it is still recognizably a tree, it still lives as a tree, it still puts out its leaves and acorns, but its center, hidden deep within the curtain of green, remains empty and splintered where it hasn't been grotesquely scarred over. We are happy the tree hasn't died, and from the proper angle we can look on it and suppose that it is the same tree as it ever was, but it is not and never will be. — Robert Hicks

In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you're in the countryside. For example, I can be at home in the swimming pool and be five minutes from everything. — Wolfgang Puck

I liked working on 'The Grudge 2.' It was really fun, and I got to meet a lot of cool people. I think the film is a fine example of horror, and I felt excited that I could act in something like that. — Shaun Sipos

Only a poet can translate for the dead. — Marty Rubin

There is no place like Calvary for creating confidence. The air of that sacred hill brings health to trembling faith. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

But you couldn't mourn forever. Or you could, but as it turned out there were better things to do. — Lev Grossman

The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy. — Napoleon Bonaparte

At the end of every day of every year, two things remain unshakable, our constancy of purpose and our continuous discontent with the immediate present. — Roberto Goizueta

I, however, have really never been anywhere yet, not because some sins or other could wrap themselves around me there, but because I'd rather sin at home, where God even announces the weather to me in advance on TV, slowly, so that I can write it down, in case it's worth the proper guilt. Sinning is enough, there's no need for surprises as well. — Elfriede Jelinek

Advance yourself by advancing others. Do not judge others. Be of service to them, but realize that you are not necessarily the instrument of perfecting and immortalizing others. — Frederick Lenz

What can't be changed must be endured. — Robert Jordan

The one who has a good friend doesn't need any mirror. — Rumi

There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things. — David Cottrell