Hamlet Nunnery Quotes & Sayings

Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not understand, human nature. — Herman Melville

Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees. — Louis L'Amour

Courage is like the diamond,
very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless. — Charles Caleb Colton

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men. — Katee Sackhoff

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. — George Gordon Byron

It's true that I want to smother her with compliments and true that I want to keep my distance. True that I want her to like me and true that I don't. — John Green

As for Israel, our friendship is rooted deeply in a shared history and shared values. Our commitment to Israel's security is unshakeable. And we will stand against attempts to single it out for criticism in international forums. — Barack Obama

Kissing Travis was like licking raw cookie dough off the spoon; it might be bad for her, but it was too delicious to care. — Codi Gary

Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet, it is because others have raised us up. If, as adults, we can lay claim to competence and compassion, it only means that other human beings have been willing and enabled to commit their competence and compassion to us
through infancy, childhood, and adolescence, right up to this very moment. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

Applying the 80:20 rule, I would say that 80 per cent of our youth don't even care about politics or government. What they care about are their lives - their jobs, their boyfriends or girlfriends and, well, that's about it. — Chetan Bhagat

The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly. — Cesare Pavese

The two officers seemed more puzzled by Emily's costume than by the presence of a corpse in the Mercedes. Perhaps corpses were more regular. — Margaret Scherf

The perks of a new government are not really appealing to me. Everybody would like to have a good job, a good salary ... but for me that is not the all of struggle. What is important is the continuation of the struggle ... the real problems of the country are not whether one is in Cabinet ... but what we do for social upliftment of the working masses of our country. — Chris Hani