Jeila Gueramian Quotes & Sayings

My name is Dimitri Belikov. I've come to take you back to St. Vladimir's Academy, Princess. — Richelle Mead

The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world. — Oscar Wilde

To be alive means to live in a world that proceeded one's own arrival and will survive one's own departure. On this level of sheer being alive, appearance and disappearance, as they follow upon each other, are the primordial events, which as such mark out time, the time span between birth and death. — Hannah

It is no mean happiness ... to be seated in the mean — William Shakespeare

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton. — William Makepeace Thackeray

At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins. — W.G. Sebald