Heyland Marine Quotes & Sayings

Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be virtues. Such people are convinced that the doors of heaven will be opened only to poor wretches like themselves who go through life without leaving any trace but their threadbare attempts to belittle others and to exclude - and destroy if possible - those who, by the simple fact of their existence, show up their own poorness of spirit, mind, and guts. Blessed be the one at whom the fools bark, because his soul will never belong to them. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Illium says that perhaps I can use them to flutter someone to death.
- Aodhan to Jason, Archangel's Storm — Nalini Singh

God was as visible in this affair as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool which he wills. He is not responsible to men. — Victor Hugo

I think people like it when you have a bit of personality. — Lara Stone

I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms. — Madame Roland

I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not say this because I demand scholarship in all men -- although the sum total of men's learning is small enough; but I question whether we should allow anyone to waste our time. The wasting of time is an abomination. — Girolamo Cardano

When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did. — Hans Matheson

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it. — Ben Harper

Where did you learn that smile? Have you been practicing in front of a holo of Han Solo?
Mara to Luke — Aaron Allston

I'm so addicted to 'Homeland' right now. — Hilary Rhoda

A gaudy dress and gentle air May slightly touch the heart; But it's innocence and modesty That polishes the dart. — Robert Burns