Mebratu Ethiopia Quotes & Sayings

We and all the others and everyone - regardless of the lives we'd led, and more than anything else, and beyond the agonies and dangers that attend every act and action of ours in this life, we all wanted to live. And that desire, if not the result, is something to think about. — Deborah Blum

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory. — Benjamin Disraeli

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world. — Jane Austen

Life is never beautiful, but only the pictures of life are so in the transfiguring mirror of art or poetry; especially in youth, when we do not yet know it. Many a youth would receive great peace of mind if one could assist him to this knowledge. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I prefer the company of books. — Sophie Divry

We ... have created a greater material wealth than any other society in the history of the human race. Yet we have managed to kill off millions of our population in an arrangement which we call war. — Erich Fromm

Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind. — Voltaire

The gap in the fire which had opened up before him, so that the twisted grimace on the face of existence had become visible through the play of the flames, narrowed to disappear completely. His back hurt and he could hear darkness breathing audibly. — Paul Leppin