Hovenia Plus Quotes & Sayings

Why did God allow Jephthah's foolish vow to run its course? (D*) — Gleason Archer

People with good memories are liable to be crushed by the weight of their suffering. Only those with bad memories, the fittest to survive, can live on. - Lu Xun — Peter Hessler

People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls. — Vladimir Korolenko

Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority. — Baltasar Gracian

Some people aim at nothing in life and hit it with amazing accuracy. — Aman Jassal

A peace that blacked yer eye," I say. "A piece that split you lip. — Patrick Ness

I've been estranged from my father since I was eight. — Anna Torv

Not even thinking about anything. My mind is a blank. We just want to enjoy the moment. — Andre Iguodala

And so he would now study perfumes, and the secrets of their manufacture, distilling heavily-scented oils, and burning odorous gums from the East. He saw that there was no mood of the mind that had not its counterpart in the sensuous life, and set himself to discover their true relations, wondering what there was in frankincense that made one mystical, and in ambergris that stirred one's passions, and in violets that woke the memory of dead romances, and in musk that troubled the brain, and in champak that stained the imagination;
and seeking often to elaborate a real psychology of perfumes, and to estimate the several influences of sweet-smelling roots, and scented pollen-laden flower, of aromatic balms, and of dark and fragrant woods, of spikenard that sickens, of hovenia that makes men mad, and of aloes that are said to be able to expel melancholy from the soul. — Oscar Wilde

there as a kid, wide-eyed, listening as my mother would talk about how at age nine she — Peter M. Rhee

Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can see you can get up. — Les Brown

I like challenges that test your ingenuity. — Colin Baker

So you fell out of the sky, too? the Little Prince asked the pilot who tells the story, and I thought yes, I'd fallen out of the sky, too, but there was no possible testimony of my fall, there was no black box that anybody could consult, nor was there any black box of Ricardo Laverde's fall, human lives don't have these technological luxuries to fall back on. — Juan Gabriel Vasquez

It's very difficult to introduce the world to our culture. — Hiroyuki Sanada

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed. — Peter Coyote

I'm the guy that stands out in all the crowds, so I don't get out there and dance, but I can dance. — Tracy McGrady