Harlequinade Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

Despairing Dido, queen of ancient Carthage, slain by her own hand as her magnificent lover Aeneas lifts anchor and sails away forever: this is one of the most haunting and permanent images of the classical world. — Thomas Cahill

Men, as Amundsen liked to say, are the unknown factor in the Antarctic. — Roland Huntford

This kind of beauty softens you and expands you, which is good, but of course it makes you vulnerable to all sorts of horrible things, like, oh, feelings. And being in your body. — Anne Lamott

I really look up to people who experiment in all areas and I think Johnny Depp is a really good actor to look up to because he's done so many genres of films. — Georgie Henley

In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity. — John Biggins

Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them. — Ken Keyes Jr.

The 'God' that the great majority believe in is, pretty certainly, the Deist god, which corresponds in Paul's world to the Epicurean god or gods. These beings were distant, remote, and uncaring. They enjoyed a state of perfect bliss, no doubt; but they never got their hands dirty by caring for, or being active within, the world in which we humans live. It's not surprising that people who believe in the existence of that sort of god don't go to church except now and then. — N. T. Wright

Democracy is such a framework that everyone has the right to live their lives, fix their goals, their aims, their dreams and the ways to achieve them according to their own choice. — Narendra Modi

Everyone at a high level has a huge amount of chess understanding, and much of what separates the great from the very good is deep presence, relaxation of the conscious mind, which allows the unconscious to flow unhindered. — Josh Waitzkin

I carry all the thoughts and feelings Ive ever had. Conversations, smells tastes and visions. Yet you. Wonder why I am always so tired?!? — Tina J. Richardson

You have a job?"
"Do you think I just fucking run this ship so I can call myself captain and get laid?"
"Well, no. I thought you were a criminal. — Pippa DaCosta