Gatopardo De La Quotes & Sayings

Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I will end up an old maid. — Jane Austen

Sachish became so aware of her that his mystic trance broke. He could no longer regard her as a metaphor for a transcendental mood. — Rabindranath Tagore

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body. — Johann Arndt

I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn't make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were always walking on eggshells. — Dominique Moceanu

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation. — Jean De La Bruyere

On game day, until five o'clock or so, the white desert light held off the essential Sunday gloom - autumn sinking into winter, loneliness of October dusk with school the next day - but there was always a long still moment toward the end of those football afternoons where the mood of the crowd turned and everything grew desolate and uncertain, onscreen and off, the sheet-metal glare off the patio glass fading to gold and then gray, long shadows and night falling into desert stillness, a sadness I couldn't shake off, a sense of silent people filing toward the stadium exits and cold rain falling in college towns back east. — Donna Tartt

2 The Lord's works are great, studied by all who delight in them. c — Anonymous

Arin pulled her onto his lap. He held her shaking form, tucked his face into the crook of her cold neck as she sobbed against him. He murmured that he loved her more than he could say. He promised that he would always choose her first. — Marie Rutkoski

I don't mind comments saying things about me. I do mind them saying things about those young, brave men and women who have volunteered. That's offensive to me that people would say those kind of comments about Americans who have volunteered to take the fight to the enemy. — George W. Bush