Midollo In English Quotes & Sayings

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. — Andre Breton

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds. — Robertson Davies

To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems. — Susan Sarandon

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. — Thomas Dekker

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours. — George Orwell

You're literally sized up with measuring tape as a 13- or 14-year-old girl. I wanted to opt out of that experience. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.I guess that means I've grown up now ... — Cassandra Clare

It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me. — Wallace Shawn

In The Shadow Of The Night

All the clouds are gray, and the sky is dark as night. Soft words are spoken, and there's a twinkle, of a flicker of light.

The presence of a Man walks by, and Mighty and Powerful is He.
Kneeling down to pray, He says a prayer for me.

The sky becomes brighter, and the leaves of the trees turn green.
The flowers begin to bloom, and there's a warm gentle breeze.

Thank you Lord for setting me free... — Jerrel C. Thomas

The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden. — Edward Carpenter

Happy the man who demands no more from life than what life spontaneously gives him and who guides himself with the instinct of cats who seek the sun when there is sun and, when there is no sun, find what warmth they can. — Pessoa, Fernando

I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go. — Mal Peet