Luvly Gifts Quotes & Sayings

I was anxious, but also eager to be back in that Boy's Own world where every emotion was heightened, where even boredom had an edge. This — Clar Ni Chonghaile

The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch. — Stephen King

From small mistakes come great catastrophes; — Justin Cronin

The function of a great library is to store obscure books. — Nicholson Baker

Pacifists have usually regarded the use of violence as absolutely wrong, irrespective of its consequences. This, like other 'no matter what' prohibitions, assumes the validity of the distinction between acts and omissions. Without this distinction, pacifists who refuse to use violence when it is the only means of preventing greater violence would be responsible for the greater violence they fail to prevent. — Peter Singer

It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod. — Washington Irving

At that period I paid as constant attention to the greater securing of my happiness, to enjoying and judging it, too, as I had always done for the smallest details of my acts; and what is the act of love, itself, if not a moment of passionate attention on the part of the body? Every bliss achieved is a masterpiece; the slightest error turns it awry, and it alters with one touch of doubt; any heaviness detracts from its charm, the least stupidity renders it dull. My own felicity is in no way responsible for those of my imprudences which shattered it later on; in so far as I have acted in harmony with it I have been wise. I think still that someone wiser than I might well have remained happy till his death. — Marguerite Yourcenar