Gandia La Quotes & Sayings

A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapor that corrects the all too angular contours of pure thought, fills up the gaps and intervals here and there, binds them together, and dulls the sharp corners of ideas. But too much reverie submerges and drowns. Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie it's pleasure. To replace thought with reverie is to confound poison with nourishment. — Victor Hugo

It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do. — Robbie Coltrane

of the Pequod was a most wealthy example of these things. On its round border it bore the — Herman Melville

When he appeared before the lord, his lordship was smitten immediately with the boy's unadorned beauty, like a first glimpse of the moon rising above a distant mountain. The boy's hair gleamed like the feathers of a raven perched silently on a tree, and his eyes were lovely as lotus flowers. One by one his other qualities became apparent, from his nightingale voice to his gentle disposition, as obedient and true as a plum blossom. — Saikaku Ihara

They might as well have been trying to fit a squirrel through the eye of a needle. — Embee

When you see a good person, think about evaluating that person. When you see a bad person, think about evaluating yourself. - CONFUCIUS — Steve DeMasco

A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right. — Richard Dawkins

When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Your thoughts are seeds, and the harvest you reap will depend on the seeds you plant. — Rhonda Byrne

I liked science. I wasn't mathematically oriented, so I became an organic chemist. — Koji Nakanishi