Historicalromance Quotes & Sayings

He looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from them. each of the closed books was a door, and behind it stirred shadows, voices, sounds, heading toward him from a deep, dark place. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego. — Jaggi Vasudev

Seek not revenge, but the Buddha. — Neil Gaiman

Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine. — Rick Riordan

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In the United States, if a political character attacks a sect, this may not prevent even the partisans of that very sect, from supporting him; but if he attacks all the sects together, every one abandons him and he remains alone. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Even when I was a kid, everything I had was the best. — Conor McGregor

We've got guys who aren't wrapping guys up ... No matter how hard you hit them, you've still got to wrap them up. — Tony Dungy

I may ... pass for being a relatively successful man. People occasionally stare at me in the streets-that's fame. I can fairly easily earn enough to qualify for admission to the higher slopes of the Inland Revenue-that's success. Furnished with money and a little fame ... [I] may partake of trendy diversions-that's pleasure. It might happen once in a while that something I said or wrote ... represented a serious impact on our time-that's fulfillment. Yet I say to you, and I beg you to believe me, multiply these tiny triumphs by a million, add them all together, and they are nothing-less than nothing, a positive impediment-measured against one draught of that living water Christ offers to the spiritually thirsty.8 — Richard D. Phillips

I sang in choir as a kid. — Scott Weiland

I believe that we carry within us a divinely inspired moral imperative to love ... We have within us the ability to change for the better and to find dignity as individuals rather than as drones in one mass movement or another. We have the ability to love, the need to be loved, and the willingness to put our own lives on the line to protect those we love, and it is in these aspects of ourselves that we can glimpse the face of God; and through the exercise of these qualities, we come to a Godlike state. — Dean Koontz

You are the devil to talk to, Rachel," he said curtly. "Will you shut up and listen? — Kim Harrison

Free man needs loyalty to the self first of all, and this implies the right to be himself — Joost A.M. Meerloo