Funny Fish Ponds Quotes & Sayings

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it. — May Sarton

Now, I don't think about it. Or when I did, I mostly felt a terrible relief. Truly terrible, like a person who's been told they no longer have to carry the weight of their own gangrenous and rotting left arm. It smells, it hurts, it's literally killing you - but it's still the only left arm that you'll ever have. — Joshilyn Jackson

I want you alone," he whispered, gliding a hand around her hip, "on a slow boat to China. Days together, nights ... rocking on the waves. — Ophelia London

But pain ... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain? — Lois McMaster Bujold

The king of swords, master of his own emotions, master of his own intellect, master of reason, gazed out at them, expression inscrutable. — Maggie Stiefvater

India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified. — Erin Reese

There is no suffering, except remorse, so fatal as that which comes from the consciousness of strangled ambition, blasted hope, stifled aspiration. To be conscious that we possess decided ability for some particular calling, and to be compelled by circumstances, year after year, to be chained to drudgery which the heart loathes, requires supreme courage. — Orison Swett Marden

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. — Edmund Burke

If you see a sunset and try to describe it to someone in normal words, all you can say is, 'Boy, I saw a great sunset last night.' But if you are a poet, you give it to someone to feel for themselves. Like you make a little seed of what you saw, they swallow it, and it blooms again inside their own hearts. — Elizabeth Berg

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. — Richard Schickel

The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh. — Lord Byron

If it weren't for Liberace, there would be no Madonna or Lady Gaga, Elton John, Bette Midler, or Elvis because it was Liberace who helped the King glitz up his act. — Robin Leach