Gemistdownloader Quotes & Sayings

Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere. — Victor Hugo

I love living in Utah. I was born here but raised in L.A., but we decided about 13, 14 years ago to come here to Utah. — Donny Osmond

I've never seen anyone sleep with their head hanging off the back of a wooden chair before - was the couch not comfortable enough for you? — Tabitha Suzuma

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don't you think so? — Thomas Hardy

What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task. This is the price and the promise of citizenship. — Barack Obama

I do not aim to be immediately practical but eternally helpful. — John Piper

I've an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and joys of others only in their relationship to me, as food to sustain my spiritual powers. I am no longer capable of loosing my head in love, Ambition has been crushed in me by circumstances, but it has come out in another way, for ambition is nothing but a lust for power and my chief delight is to dominate those around me. To inspire in others love, devotion, fear - isn't that the first symptom and the supreme triumph of power? To cause another person suffering or joy, having no right to do so - isn't that the sweetest food of pride? — Mikhail Lermontov

Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place. — Billie Jean King

Look up. This is the season of shooting stars. Light, two thousand years old, still dazzling. Let me see your face. Your face lit up by twenty centuries. — Jeanette Winterson

On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational
to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of. — Martin Amis

Choosing to honor the tidal nature of life, I do not push for artificial solutions born of haste and indiscretion. I allow the universe to unfold with divine timing. I attune myself to the tempo of my highest good. — Julia Cameron

O'er the rugged mountain's brow Clara threw the twins she nursed, And remarked,'I wonder now Which will reach the bottom first? — Harry Graham

You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls. — Carl Andre