Lifes Storms Quotes & Sayings

In those years only the dead smiled, Glad to be at rest: And Leningrad city swayed like A needless appendix to its prisons. — Anna Akhmatova

So many of us have not attended to the deeper issues in ourselves; in our minds, our hearts, and in our external manifestations that keep love at bay. We instead concentrate on making a list of what we're looking for in another person. — Marianne Williamson

I think that if you are sticking to the text, essentially, you're not trying to write your own version of it. I mean, of course, it is your own version of it. And every translator would probably have a different version. But I think that that's what keeps the writers from being individual in English. They may be my English, but I don't think that Ferrante sounds like Levi. — Ann Goldstein

He's enough of a man to make a legion of panties disintegrate. Incinerate. — Marata Eros

Sombre as fir trees, liquid cats
Moved in the grass without a sound.
They did not know the grass went round.
The cats had cats and the grass turned gray
And the world had worlds, ai, this-a-way:
The grass turned green and the grass turned gray. — Wallace Stevens

Metaphysics is the only thoroughly emotional thing. — G.K. Chesterton

When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper. — Rachel Kushner

The more chemicals that are in our food, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of. — Ziggy Marley

Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. — Khalil Gibran

He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew. — Michael Chabon

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. — Carlo Goldoni