Lantra Courses Quotes & Sayings

Every city has streets that were built under an unlucky star. And they don't have to be located in the outskirts, either. Sometimes they run along beside gloomy factory buildings, sometimes along the railway lines or main highways, sometimes even beside a park or ravine that has survived through some oversight by the municipal authorities. — Sergei Lukyanenko

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it. — Mahatma Gandhi

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer? — Saint Augustine

Oh my god are you talking about stalking me?"
"yes, but if it comes before a judge we'll just call it a little misunderstanding," he said with a shrug. — R.L. Mathewson

Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I shall in some measure compensate this loss by the satisfaction I shall find in your writing. — Heloise

Break open the cherry tree: where are the blossoms? Just wait for spring time to see how they bloom. — Ikkyu

The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others. — David Lloyd

There are male as well as female gossips. — Charles Caleb Colton

It is a meaningful thing for a scientist of the stature of Ibn Sina, certainly one of the best scientific minds in the whole history of mankind, to often resort to prayer to seek God's help in solving his philosophical and scientific problems. And it is also perfectly understandable why the purification of the soul is considered an integral part of the methodology of knowledge. — Osman Bakar

We'll be reporting music news every week and have real bands coming and performing on 'MyMusic,' interacting with the fictional cast as though they were real. — Benny Fine

Like some scurrilous king stripped of his vestiture and driven together with his fool into the wilderness to die. — Cormac McCarthy

Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to those men whose inner life is faint. — William E. Woodward

Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life. — Rachel Carson

ahead. But they were doing this for Sophie, and — Devyn Morgan