Lercapin Quotes & Sayings

To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love. — Jean-Paul Sartre

When there is nothing you can do to stop the march of adverse events, then the best thing, she felt, was to get on with life and not to worry. — Alexander McCall Smith

Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity. — John Milton

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien. — Edward Dahlberg

I like difficult people because that means they're perfectionists and they're passionate. — Stephanie Sigman

He caught me stealing his golden phoenix.'
Tithonus closed his eyes briefly. 'Good grief!' He opened them again. 'I was half hoping it wasn't true. Have you any idea of the implications?'
'He was mistreating it!' Pyrgus protested.
'Of course he was mistreating it. This is Black Hairstreak we're talking about. He mistreats his own mother. I don't suppose you stole her as well? — Herbie Brennan

The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda. — John Yoo

I told you I don't do casual sex."
He sat up, too, now. "Grace, there is nothing fucking casual about how I feel about you. — Samantha Young

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. — Eric Hoffer

He staked me out, marked as his property, said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me. I beat him up twice but it did no good, he only grew closer to Jem. — Harper Lee

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge