Hisar Quotes & Sayings

I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory. — Ambeth R. Ocampo

The entire mass of people before the palace erupted in a deafening roar. And then, as one, they lunged forward. — Terry Goodkind

A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be ... — Hermann Broch

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.
— Frederick Franck

...The happy Warrior... 'tis, finally, the man, who, lifted high, conspicuous object in a nation's eye, or left unthought-of in obscurity,- who, with a toward or untoward lot, prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not- plays, in the many games of life, that one where what he most doth value must be won: whom neither shape or danger can dismay, nor thought of tender happiness betray; who, not content that former worth stand fast, looks forward, persevering to the last, from well to better, daily self-surpast: who, whether praise of him must walk the earth for ever, and to noble deeds give birth, or he must fall, to sleep without his fame, and leave a dead unprofitable name- finds comfort in himself and in his cause; and, while the mortal mist is gathering, draws his breath in confidence of Heaven's applause: this is the happy Warrior; this is he that every man in arms should wish to be. — William Wordsworth

Beauty with character ages better than perfection — Karl Lagerfeld

Not so much wonderful as perfect," she replied. "Kind of flawless. More or less magnificent. Without blemish. Rather on the ideal side." She looked at the Prince. "Am I being helpful?"
"I — William Goldman

Blessed is he who preferreth his brother before himself. — Baha'u'llah

I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it. — Shenae Grimes

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles ... — Jane Porter

They've all been against me, ever since I can remember, even when I was six years old. What sort of human beings are these, who can be inhuman to a child of six? How can I help hating them all? Sometimes they disgust me so much that I feel I can't go on living among them - that I must escape from the loathsome creatures swarming like maggots all over the earth. — Anna Kavan