Imperishable Enchantment Quotes & Sayings

We can't protect her from life, Nell. You know that. She's going to get hurt someday. All we can do is love her, and be there when it happens. — Jasinda Wilder

For they both were solitary,
She on earth and he is heaven.
And he wooed her with caressed,
Wooed her with his smile of sunshine
-Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — Jana Oliver

Keep silence, be mute.
If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD,
be an ear! — Rumi

War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control. — Pearl S. Buck

I got involved through the director of the show [Top Chef], he's a director of films in Mexico; I worked with him before. I watched the show in English -many times for many years - and I always loved it. As soon as I heard about having an opportunity to showcase Mexico in a different way, to show a different side of Mexico, that is not violent, that has beautiful colors and delicious food ... I didn't think about it twice. — Ana Claudia Talancon

I've heard of sweatin' to the oldies, but this was like drowning to the moldies." - Cher — Randi Reisfeld

From a misanthrope Bacchus makes me sociable ... Yet on the other hand I had already bowed and smiled; I had performed at least the motions of complaisancy; and how often have I not observed that the imitation begets the reality. — Patrick O'Brian

I feel sorry for the man who marries you ... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not. — Harold Brodkey

I see the good in the world because I choose to. I don't imagine that it's there; it's there waiting to be noticed. — Richelle E. Goodrich

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands. — George Carlin

Kurt left in the early morning to walk around Aberdeen in the pale light of dawn. The storm had passed, birds were chirping, and everything in the world seemed more alive. He walked around for hours thinking about it all, waiting for school to begin, watching the sun come up, wondering where his life was heading. — Charles R. Cross

Sometimes your higher self will guide you to make mistakes so you can learn lessons. — Gabrielle Bernstein

Just once, he looks back at Arsay, and I feel like an entire encyclopedia of information and words is exchanged between them. I wish I could speak telepathy too. — Poppet

Most sows are repeatedly inseminated, brood after brood, till their bodies give way and they go to slaughter. But while they're still useful, they're made to nurse - strapped to their sides in a farrowing crate, legs apart, nipples exposed. Pigs are extremely smart, sociable creatures, and this forced assembly-line intimacy makes the nursing sows want to die. Which, as soon as they dry up, they do. — Gillian Flynn

Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends ... are called servile ...
The question is ... can man develop to the full as a functionary and a "worker" and nothing else; can a full human existence be contained within an exclusively workaday existence? Stated differently and translated back into our terms: is there such a thing as a liberal art? — Josef Pieper