Griechisches Quotes & Sayings

Spindly branches of buttercups were secreted among gleaming stems still moist at the roots from last night's rain that had washedand refreshed the entire wood, had dowered it in poignant transparency, the unique, inconsolable quality of rainy countries, as if all was glimpsed through tears. — Angela Carter

American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means. — Fran Lebowitz

Reasoning led him into doubt and kept him from seeing what he should and should not do. Yet when he did not think, but lived, he constantly felt in his soul the presence of an infallible judge who decided which of two possible actions was better and which was worse; and whenever he did not act as he should, he felt it at once.
So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any possibility of knowing what he was and why he was living in the world, tormented by this ignorance to such a degree that he feared suicide, and at the same time firmly laying down his own particular, definite path in life. — Leo Tolstoy

Her voice hit him like a cool breeze - like that first cold front in Texas when the summer heat finally breaks and you start to believe things might get better. — Rick Riordan

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. — George Eliot

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours. — David Baldacci

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. — Randolph Bourne

If no cat has more to say, we should end this Gathering," Firestar meowed. "Fine by me," Blackstar replied. Onestar and Leopardstar nodded. — Erin Hunter

To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living. — Marianne Williamson

The only monsters in this world are those who pass for human, who cast shadows and are reflected in mirrors, who smile and speak of compassion and shed convincing tears. — Dean Koontz

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them. — Teresa Of Avila

We must remember that love is great when it's real but can be a distraction and destroy when it's a bunch of fuckery. Losing it all in the name of love is equivalent to being a sucker for love. A sucker for love is the type of person who would do anything just to feel loved. — Tionna Smalls