Montestara Quotes & Sayings

Something now leaves me; something goes from me to meet that figure who is coming, and assures me that I know him before I see who it is. How curiously one is changed by the addition, even at a distance, of a friend. How useful an office one's friends perform when they recall us. Yet how painful to be recalled, to be mitigated, to have one's self adulterated, mixed up, become part of another. As he approaches I become not myself but Neville mixed with somebody - with whom? - with Bernard? Yes, it is Bernard, and it is to Bernard that I shall put the question, Who am I? — Virginia Woolf

I don't see what's so good about helping others, though. If they only become reliant on you. Then you're just part of the problem. — Sunjeev Sahota

Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off from there. — Charlotte Ronson

I have always wanted to be on Broadway, whether on ice or on the boards. — Robin Cousins

The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background. — Amy Chua

Violence doesn't solve anything. Win would make a face when I said that, but the truth was, whenever I resorted to violence, it never just ended there. Violence ripples and reverberates. It echoes and really never seems to go silent. — Harlan Coben

That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it. — Laurie Lee

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies. — Thomas Jefferson

Something far more intimate than sexual intercourse. We'd told each other the truth. Oh, it had been tentative and framed with doubt, but we'd done it. — Skye Warren

A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know. — Phil Jackson

The truest vision of life I know is that bird in the Venerable Bede that flutters from the dark into a lighted hall, and after a while flutters out again into the dark. But Ruth is right. It is something
it can be everything
to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below; a fellow bird whom you can look after and find bugs and seeds for; one who will patch your bruises and straighten your ruffled feathers and mourn over your hurts when you accidentally fly into something you can't handle. (
from The Spectator Bird) — Wallace Stegner