Genelle Guzman Quotes & Sayings

Maybe he was concerned, or bored, or inappropriately friendly, or midwestern friendly. — Ann Patchett

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves. — L.M. Montgomery

But he did love people; he lived all his life, it seemed, with complete faith in people, and yet no one ever considered him either naive or a simpleton. There was something in him that told one, that convinced one (and it was so all his life afterwards) that he did not want to be a judge of men, that he would not take judgment upon himself and would not condemn anyone for anything. It seemed, even, that he accepted everything without the least condemnation, though often with deep sadness. Moreover, in this sense he even went so far that no one could either surprise or frighten him, and this even in his very early youth. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

He believed there were too many black clergy who were selling heaven to the people.2 — Clarence Taylor

All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow. — Paddy Considine

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The world of "preserving" that wealth. He had no interest in preservation of any sort. — Michael Lewis

It is no coincidence that precisely when things started going downhill with the gods, politics gained its bliss-making character. There would be no reason for objecting to this, since the gods, too were not exactly fair. But at least people saw temples instead of termite architecture. Bliss is drawing closer; it is no longer in the afterlife, it will come, though not momentarily, sooner or later in the here and now - in time.
The anarch thinks more primitively; he refuses to give up any of his happiness. "Make thyself happy" is his basic law. It his response to the "Know thyself" at the temple of Apollo in Delphi. These two maxims complement each other; we must know our happiness and our measure. — Ernst Junger

With all his soul he wanted to sweep her to him and tell her everything was going to be all right. To erase that awful bleakness from her face and with his two strong arms reshape the world for her, to make everything all right. But he had learned long ago the futility of racing from the truth. — Leigh Bristol

Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again.
For then the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day. — Matthew Arnold