Gorgias Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

We're at once alone and in close company: this is the great gift of the novel, the element that makes reading more than a solitary pastime. We sit within another's person. — Brenda Walker

I'm liking the different types of tights that you can wear with high heels. There are lots of different colors and textures. — Lindsay Price

And at last, in its curved and imperceptible fall, the sun sank low, and from glowing white changed to a dull red without rays and without heat, as if about to go out suddenly, stricken to death by the touch of that gloom brooding over a crowd of men. — Joseph Conrad

And when God steps in, His working is like the difference between a skyscraper and a star. — Charles R. Swindoll

Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earth's volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is too hot to crystallize, its body is extremely weak. The crust, being so thin, must bend, if, over wide areas, it becomes loaded with glacial ice, ocean water or deposits of sand and mud. It must bend in the opposite sense if widely extended loads of such material be removed. This accounts for ... the origin of chains of high mountains ... and the rise of lava to the earth's surface. — Reginald Aldworth Daly

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. — Aldous Huxley

The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it. — Paul Graham

You could be writing the book that changes your life. — Brandon Sanderson

Shan't I take that anshient circus tent?" said he, pintin' to my umbreller, "and lock it up in the safe? — Various

The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition - that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainable - is a loss, not a gain, in true sophistication. The secular substitute - the belief in the perfection of life on earth by the endless extension of a choice of pleasures - is not merely callow by comparison but much less realistic in its understanding of human nature. — Theodore Dalrymple

It used to amaze me when I'd hear people say that they lived in haunted houses or that they'd been to them. Those types of confessions amazed me because they just sounded so unbelievable. — C.A. Rose