Hoai Thuong Quotes & Sayings

Remember that there are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body. That of the soul displays its radiance in intelligence, in chastity, in good conduct, in generosity, and in good breeding, and all these qualities may exist in an ugly man. And when we focus our attention upon that beauty, not upon the physical, love generally arises with great violence and intensity. I am well aware that I am not handsome, but I also know that I am not deformed, and it is enough for a man of worth not to be a monster for him to be dearly loved, provided he has those spiritual endowments I have spoken of. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry. — Albert Einstein

Life is like Candyland, there are many paths to take, sometimes you run into Lord Licorice but the end will always be Candy Castle. — Jack Barakat

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass. — Bruce Springsteen

Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down. — Henry Wotton

Why can't they invent a pill that will keep you from remembering someone you don't want to remember? — Elizabeth Jane Howard

It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [ ... ] Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. [ ... ] That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it. — Neil Young

Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caught in the tangles of that yellow hair. — Katherine Mansfield

A miracle that can never be: your face, your hands, pledged to me. — Julie Berry

Where once stood the steadfast pines, great, beautiful, sweet, my hand touched raw, moist stumps. All about lay broken branches, like the antlers of stricken deer. The fragrant, piled-up sawdust swirled and tumbled about me. An unreasoning resentment flashed through me at the ruthless destruction of the beauty that I love. — Helen Keller

Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one? — Rocky Marciano

For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied. — August Krogh

We don't have to look for what the next thing will be. If experience is any judge, it'll come flowing toward us like a river. — Stephen Colbert