Jornais Online Quotes & Sayings

One monster there is in the world, the idle man. — Thomas Carlyle

Why did you call me 'Deer of Heaven'? It makes no sense. It sounded beautiful then, but it was childish. — Friedrich Glauser

Ann put the oven to heat. She washed the lamb under the tap, turning it around to clean the entire leg. Then it was dried with a paper towel, stretched out on the cutting board to be hammered flat, and rubbed with salt and rosemary she took from the kitchen window. She waited for the oven to reach two hundred. The cleaned scent of the meat and the clatter of the water in the skink, the branches of rosemary, the dogs finding each other's ears in the evening, the children being called indoors, servants standing on the road for the Indian bus, and the rising heat of the oven against the remaining heat of the day made her aware of her own happiness. This happiness was like the sea wind when the temperature of the water and the land reversed and everything was free in new darkness. — Imraan Coovadia

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities. — Rebecca Solnit

What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way. — E. E. Cummings

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government. — Bruce Schneier

I am an old fashioned angler seeking to fish in a peaceful and relaxing way in traditional surroundings. Other anglers are too noisy, too busy, and catch fish that might break my landing net. — Fennel Hudson

There was no way out; not, at least, in this direction. I was like a hamster that had climbed to the top of the ladder in its cage and found there was nowhere to go but down. But surely hamsters knew in their hamster hearts that escape was futile; it was only we humans who were incapable of accepting our own helplessness. — Alan Bradley

go to her house today. But earlier. — M.H. Sargent

You have the greatest chance of being happy when the voice you respond to is your own voice. — Sonia Friedman

We're all naturally curious when we're eight years old. But as most people get older, they become less and less curious, so they ask other people to be curious for them. That's what I do for a living. — Ron Miriello

The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed society would be a crime-free society. They will not accept the truth that if you take all the guns off the street you still will have a crime problem, whereas if you take the criminals off the street you cannot have a gun problem. — Jeff Cooper

I feel in my own life I've made many mistakes. I've failed in many directions. — Sheldon Harnick

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose. — John Milton