Lumennotie Quotes & Sayings

Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting. — Hubert Van Zeller

He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try. — Andrew Marvell

Audry Hepburn on the cover of The Nun's Story was staring up at me from my unmade bed. Her hair was hidden by her snow-white wimple; her big eyes looked frightened.
"What are you looking at?" I said. "Fuck you." It was the first time I'd ever said the word. I felt a brief shiver of power.
Then I sat back on the bed and sobbed. Dolores Price: Lady of Sorrow. — Wally Lamb

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star. — Arthur Conan Doyle

A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it — Martin Luther

So many FREAKS and not enough CIRCUSES! — Rachel Renee Russell

Wise people could sometimes be dumb. — Eric Greitens

Is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of? — Diane Johnson