Juraj Dalmatinac Quotes & Sayings

The first blush of love, when the self has lost its mooring, and, half-drowning, succumbs to a fearful tide. — Eleanor Catton

Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the first sentence: I want everything and nothing less, the full measure of a writer's heart. I want a novel so poetic that I do not have to turn to the standby anthologies of poetry to satisfy that itch for music, for perfection and economy of phrasing, for exactness of tone. Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next. — Pat Conroy

We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?' — Erwin McManus

He'd learned that when you love someone purely enough, all you wanted was for that person to be happy. (p. 419) — Elin Hilderbrand

I want to be better than five guys. I was that way when I used to box, I was that way in any sport. I want to compete with five other guys. If I beat five other guys, I'd like to see if I can beat six. — Jack Kirby

Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure ... — Katherine Cecil Thurston

Whatever is certain in death is slightly alleviated by what is not so infallible; the time when it shall happen is undefined, but it is more or less connected with the infinite, and what we call eternity. — Jean De La Bruyere

. . . An army cannot be run according to rules of etiquette. — Samuel B. Griffith

Take the fact that you were created to love. Your heart can find real joy only through love - through loving and being loved. — Thomas Goodwin

We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population. — David Ben-Gurion

The lily represents the restored innocence of the soul upon death. — C.M. Stunich