Fromentin Peintre Quotes & Sayings

The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains have disappeared, and dark forests of date palms intersected by canals fringe its margin heavily, and extend to some distance inland. — Isabella Bird

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation. — Samuel Johnson

I'm always going to worry. When it comes to you, there's nothing I won't do, and he knows that. That's my weakness - how much I love you, the lengths I'll go to protect you. — Tijan

With our blissful thoughts we fill our world with happiness. — Debasish Mridha

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide. — Steven Pinker

The native calls the baobab 'the devil tree' because he claims that the devil, getting tangled in its branches, punished by the tree by reversing it. To the native, the roots are branches now, and the branches are roots. To ensure that there would be no more baobabs, the devil destroyed all the young ones. — Jerzy Kosinski

I don't mind working. And anyway, what would I do? I don't like to watch TV. I'm out of touch with my own generation. And I have you and Mom to thank for that. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

There's no regifting the present — Robin Glasser

What if I told you that when you kiss me, lass, I doona feel cursed? That mayhap your kisses could save me. Would you? — Karen Marie Moning

If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my own colleagues. — Nelson Mandela

The space between the next two buildings was crowded with four torn bodies, limbs shredded from torsos, intestines strewn like party streamers. Suddenly one of the torsos jerked into the darkened alley beyond, dragged by something hidden in shadow. — James Rollins