Lhorloge Charles Quotes & Sayings

Who could imagine that one could be so ridiculed, so humiliated by oneself? — Kobo Abe

Earth teach me to forget myself
as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me resignation
as the leaves which die in the fall.
Earth teach me courage
as the tree which stands all alone.
Earth teach me regeneration
as the seed which rises in the spring. — William Alexander

Fear is synonymous with the future, and the future consists of forked roads, I should say forking roads, because the roads are forking all the time, like slow lightning. A road is a process, not a location. — Margaret Atwood

There are times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don't seem to help. — Fred Rogers

Every journey starts with the first step and the thousands upon thousands steps before you reach the end. Enjoy every step. — Pamela Cummins

I could see everything she said as if it were a wall painting inside the cave of my own skull. — Jack Gantos

The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at the same time, the discovery that these tyrants were petty, frightened men after all. — Fouad Ajami

Imagine a man without lungs. Imagine earth without Amazon rainforest. — Vinita Kinra

You may bury my body down by the highway side. So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride. — Robert Johnson

His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation. — Terry Pratchett

Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afraid to say 'we don't know.' For the Professor, there was no shame in admitting you didn't have the answer, it was a necessary step toward the truth. It was as important to teach us about the unknown or the unknowable as it was to teach us what had already been safely proven. — Yoko Ogawa

And I am a writer, writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones ... — Colin Meloy

I also remember that my father was one of the people who voted to get the Dauntless out of the factionless sector of the city. He said the poor didn't need policing; they needed help, and we could give it to them. But I would rather not mention that now, or here. It's one of the many things Erudite gives as evidence of Abnegation's incompetence. — Veronica Roth

Lord, here am I, send me, I will redeem every son and daughter of Adam and Eve that lives on the earth, or that ever goes on the earth. — Brigham Young