Israfel Author Quotes & Sayings

One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy. — Saint Ambrose

Genius is nothing more than an extraordinary manifestation of the body. — Arthur Cravan

All of my life, when things got too difficult, I folded up the tent and went to bed. I couldn't stand a challenge ... I was terrified of confrontation. I was very laid-back, and just wouldn't get involved or fight back. — Phoebe Snow

The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept. — Mark Regev

When we're willing to see the innocence in another person even when he or she has behaved without love toward us, we activate the Law of Divine Compensation. — Marianne Williamson

If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very important contributions. — Paolo Soleri

You can't honestly be thinking about going back there," said Alex.
"Apparently my brother isn't only lacking in people skills," said Kenzie. "He's also lacking in common sense. Stupidity, however, he appears to have in abundance. — Jena Leigh

He asked me when I planned to come back. Always, I said. — Roberto Bolano

Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death.
Let it. I am here to live my story, to love my story. I will not fail to savor any gift out of a desire for self-preservation. Self-preservation is not a great virtue in this story. — N.D. Wilson

I took a fall, he confirmed evenly. After a hesitation doubtless only Phoebe noticed.
And Phoebe didn't know whether it was the sort of fall Lucifer took, or the sort poets wrote about when love struck, or even if it was an innuendo at all, because she suspected everything was destined to sound like an innuendo from now on. — Julie Anne Long