Mirehouse Bassenthwaite Quotes & Sayings

It is better that great peoples should seek out glory, or even vanity, in their deeds, than that they should remain indifferent . For even if they are not incited to act upon virtuous principles, at least there is the saving grace that they will do things they might not have done had not vanity prompted their actions. — Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss. — John Keats

My mistake was assuming that when I got to college, people would not be such assholes. — Jennifer Echols

The altruism of foresters can serve as a motto for humanity in general: "We reap what we have not sown. We sow what we do not reap." — Leo Errera

Some place existed before the universe, exists outside of it now, and will exist when the universe collapses back upon itself. In that mysterious place, outside of time, Stormy waits for me. — Dean Koontz

Zack was so hard it hurt. — Christopher Farnsworth

Even Grace still imagined there might be words, the words that could reach Dora and that had so far, unaccountably, not been hit upon. Only Caro recognized that Dora's condition was exactly that: a condition, an irrational state requiring professional, or divine, intervention. — Shirley Hazzard