Kindaydresparbank Quotes & Sayings

True to their history, the English are very domineering and have manipulated it in different ways. I wouldn't say that there was an original, but there is a lot of expurgation in some of the Victorian translations, and there's a lot of additional salacious nonsense in some of them, too. I also like the early French one, much-derided for being fanciful but which is actually very elegantly done. It's very big, very capacious. — Marina Warner

Is love constant for you? Have you ever loved a woman? A person you love as much as you hate the hold they have on you? — Hannah Kent

In transition I think the spirit goes somewhere, but I don't think it leaves. — Valerie Simpson

I retreat from my bars, wondering why people who live outside choose such ugly words. Maybe that is what happens when you are outside, and the world clangs and barrels and shouts twenty-four hours a day, from your radio your television your wife your neighbor the lawn mower down the street and the scream of airplanes from the sky. Maybe then you use ugly words to tell life to shut up. — Rene Denfeld

He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try. — Andrew Marvell

Some people are smart enough to learn lessons the easy way. Not me. I always need to fall on my face. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

That's the thing about a knight whose armor shines, though. It's never been in battle. — Skye Warren

Christianity is a fighting religion. — C.S. Lewis

Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I've got enthusiasm. I've got desire. I've got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too. — Pete Rose

That's how he saw climbing, a physical exercise in positive and negative space. The vast expanse of white drawing the small, person-shaped speck into sharp relief. — Victoria Schwab

If you cannot be aware of who you are, you can start with being aware of who you are not. — Helena Kalivoda

I set out to write this book only because I thought it would be better to tell the story than to go on living the story. — Michael Lewis

And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. [ ... ] Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive "cry"). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten. — Oliver Sacks

May the Lord give you your heart desires. — Lailah Gifty Akita