Mapushane Quotes & Sayings

War is the worst thing that can happen to us, it is worse than a disease; it set our hearts on fire and burns our souls to dust. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those "we'll go there next time" deferrals. The sad thing is, for many there is no "next time" because passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision. — Bob Goff

When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will always win. — Laozi

Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent. — Tim Curry

The ending is immense. Tell it plainly". — Philip Roth

I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates. — John D. Rockefeller

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing. — Zoe Akins

The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Mama and I walked back out of the woods just in time to hear Frannie squeal, "I want to stay here forever!" "Fine by me." Cleo smiled. She opened up her little red cooler and sloshed through the ice. She pulled out an orange soda bottle and passed it to my sister. "We can stay here all day, at least." "Cleo Harness?" yelled a familiar, husky voice from the edge of the woods. "Is that you?" "Pack up!" Cleo hollered. "We're leaving!" She kicked the cooler lid shut and stood up so fast that her camping chair stayed stuck to her behind. — Natalie Lloyd

Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn't marry an idiot. — Julia Quinn

I think faith is the one common denominator between everything that goes on at the race track - a faith in Christ. — Kyle Petty

Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young. — Lois Lowry

Drink the nectar of love from the flowers of life. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall! — Jeffrey Archer