Lightsome Quotes & Sayings

History is not an escalator. — Max Eastman

We are not to judge of the feelings of others by what we might feel if in their place. However dark the habitation of the mole to our eyes, yet the animal itself finds the apartment sufficiently lightsome. — Oliver Goldsmith

Duiker said, a wave of sorrow flooding him. — Steven Erikson

Everyone's faith comes from the perceptions of the mind. O Arjuna, the ego-personality is the living embodiment of faith. Your faith is your identity. — Deepak Chopra

Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining. — Adam Clarke

Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes,
And o'er the chrystal streamlets plays;
Come let us spend the lightsome days
In the birks of Aberfeldy. — Robert Burns

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family. — Michael Enzi

It's (Politics) rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But it's the only sport for grownups. — Robert A. Heinlein

The Archer always keeps an arrow in her quiver for you; interrupt my shot again, and I will give it to you directly. — Kresley Cole

A person who holds strong convictions might appear inflexible, impolite, or exceptionally obtuse, when they are merely direct. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth ... — Joyce Carol Oates

The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding. — Philip Sidney

I'm still dominant and that's what matters, ... But rain, snow, sleet, it doesn't matter. I'm going to go out and try and win a gold medal. — Justin Gatlin

Clean your face," I said to the child. "It's dirty." "It's not," the child said. "By God it is," I said, "filth adheres in ine areas which I shall enumerate." "That is because of the dough," the child said. "We were taking death masks." "Dough!" I exclaimed, shocked at the idea that the child had wasted flour and water and no doubt paper too in this lightsome pastime, taking death masks. "Death!" I exclaimed for added emphasis. "What do you know of death?" "It is the end of the world," the child said, "for the death-visited individual. The world ends," the child said, "when you turn out your eyes." This was true, I could not dispute it. I returned to the main point. "Your father is telling you to wash your face," I said, locating myself in the abstract where I was more comfortable. — Donald Barthelme

The little bitch. She didn't have her files in another computer. She kept everything she knew inside her head. — Orson Scott Card

Being a man of faith, what was so interesting to me was the subject, which started, by the way, with Anne Rice's wonderful books. — John Debney

Never does a person feel so wise, so mature and so adult as when she is not. — Pia Juul