Luana Ehrlich Quote Quotes & Sayings

Pride is a great energizer for me. --Titus Ray, Chapter 1. — Luana Ehrlich

Someone to share his life with, who would greet him with a smile and a kiss, and a toddler to tackle him around the knees. Not much by today's standards, but everything by his own. — Rhonda Nelson

Along the rough cobbled streets that had served so well in surprise attacks and buccaneer landings, weeds hung from the balconies and opened cracks in the whitewashed walls of even the best-kept mansions, and the only signs of life at two o'clock in the afternoon were languid piano exercises played in the dim light of siesta. Indoors, in the cool bedrooms saturated with incense, women protected themselves from the sun as if it were a shameful infection, and even at early Mass they hid their faces in their mantillas. Their love affairs were slow and difficult and were often disturbed by sinister omens, and life seemed interminable. At nightfall, at the oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes rose out of the swamps, and a tender breath of human shit, warm and sad, stirred the certainty of death in the depths of one's soul. And — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Thursday is perhaps the worst day of the week. It's nothing in itself; it just reminds you that the week has been going on too long. — Nicci French

Prayer wasn't a familiar practice in my life. --Titus Ray, Chapter 2 — Luana Ehrlich

Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away. — Abraham Lincoln

I was thinking of people who say that happiness is impossible on earth. Look how hard they all try to find some joy in life. Look how they struggle for it. Why should any living creature exist in pain? By what conceivable right can anyone demand that a human being exist for anything but for his own joy? Every one of them wants it. Every part of him wants it. But they never find it. I wonder why. — Ayn Rand

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance. — Francis Bacon

The day should come when all of the forms of life ... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams. — William O. Douglas

We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction. — Rob Nixon

Assumptions can get you killed. --Titus Ray, Chapter 2 — Luana Ehrlich

You are to listen to the cursed radio music of life and to reverence the spirit behind it and to laugh at its distortions. — Hermann Hesse

I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative. — Buzz Aldrin

Frog in a little pond can be much happier than fish in a vast ocean! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said "bunny rabbit" in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear. — Patricia Briggs

Lincoln-sad, patient, kindly Lincoln, who after bearing upon his weary shoulders for four years a greater burden than that borne by any other man of the nineteenth century laid down his life for the people whom living he had served as well-built upon his early study of the Bible. — Theodore Roosevelt

Sometimes you have to walk out on a limb, knowing you could fall thirty feet to the hard ground, just to see if that apple on the edge is worth the risk like you think it is."
"And what if it's not?"
"Then you get up, dust yourself off, and keep walking til you find the next tree. — Kandi Steiner

A "Hybrid" mind with both creativity and analytics can better adapt to a hybrid world. — Pearl Zhu