Manolache Si Quotes & Sayings

But not to take a step forward is to take two steps backward", Abnum protested.

~ Before the Throne — Naguib Mahfouz

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude. — Henry David Thoreau

I thought she was sleeping until I heard her call out from across the room, "Will you bring me a glass of water?" I did. Then in her always-sleepy tone and drawl she said, "Do you remember when you were a little boy and you would ask your mama to bring you a glass of water?" Yeah. "You know how half the time you weren't even thirsty. You just wanted that hand that was attached to that glass that was attached to that person you just wanted to stay there until you fell asleep." She took the glass of water that I brought her and just sat it down full on the table next to her. Wow, I thought. What am I gonna do with love like this. — Dito Montiel

I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian. — Betty Dodson

I'm just a kid, Chiron," I said miserably. "What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos?"
Chiron managed a smile. '"What good is one lousy hero'? Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said something like that to me once, just before he single-handedly changed the course of your Civil War. — Rick Riordan

Group of us felt that ideas were being fed to us, whereas we wished primarily to explore our own questions and doubts, and find out where they led. — Carl R. Rogers

There will always be some who dilute the gospel to attract a crowd, but not everyone who wants to be contemporary does that. You can tell those who do because they leave out critical parts of the message, such as the uniqueness of Christ, that he's the only way, the fact that we are saved by grace through faith, or the reality of heaven and hell. Those who compromise on nonnegotiables think they're being relevant, but they become irrelevant because they have nothing to offer. Their message becomes increasingly weak and void of the power to transform people's lives. — Leon Fontaine

Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone. — Phillips Brooks

During his presidency, Truman and the Republicans were locked in a series of furious assaults on each other that outraged him and made Truman an enduring foe of a party and its representatives, which he saw as on the wrong side of almost every domestic and foreign policy issue he considered important. — Robert Dallek

The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good ... but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it. — Emily Martin

There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within. — John Lancaster Spalding

You don't need to live up to someone else's standards. If you live up to your own, you will do perfectly well. — Elizabeth Neff Walker

In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming. — Nhat Hanh

As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way. — Ioan Gruffudd

I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father. — A. N. Wilson