Giralda Quotes & Sayings

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. — Christopher Morley

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor. — Moliere

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler

You know what's going to happen if we find him. He's going to be an asshole, and Dragos, you can't kill him just because he's an asshole. You're not Lord of these islands. — Thea Harrison

You are mine, November. Until the day you leave this earth, you are mine. — Aurora Rose Reynolds

Genius does not only pertain to the brain, it belongs above all to the heart. — Juliette Drouet

It never ocurred to him that he was a passive thing, acted upon by an influence above and beyond Gloria, that he was merely the sensitive plate on which the photograph was made. Some gargantuan photographer had focused the camera on Gloria and Snap! - the poor plate could but develop, confined like all things to its nature. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical consumer's needs. For example, with only about 4% of the world's population, the United States, the largest money economy, consumes in excess of one-quarter of the world's energy and materials and generates in excess of 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. — Stuart L. Hart

I think the greatest way to learn is to learn by someone's example. — Tobey Maguire

There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose. — Anna Katharine Green

I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. It was not a groan of pain or of grief
oh, no!
it was the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe. I knew the sound well. Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it has welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me. I say I knew it well. I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart. — Edgar Allan Poe

Men are punished by their sins, not for them. — Elbert Hubbard

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. — Joseph Addison