Mountainsides With Sharp Quotes & Sayings

They'd shared more than memories the night before. What they'd experienced was a communion. — Josephine Angelini

They are beautiful, heart-rendingly beautiful, those wilds, with a quality of wide-eyed, unsung, innocent surrender that my lacquered, toy-bright Swiss villages and exhaustively lauded Alps no longer possess. Innumerable lovers have clipped and kissed on the trim turf of old-world mountainsides, on the innerspring moss, by a handy, hygienic rill, on rustic benches under the initialed oaks, and in so many cabanes in so so many beech forests. But in the Wilds of America the open-air lover will not find it easy to indulge in the most ancient of all crimes and pastimes. Poisonous plants burn his sweetheart's buttocks, nameless insects sting his; sharp items of the forest floor prick his knees, insects hers; and all around there abides a sustained rustle of potential snakes
que dis-je,of semi-extinct dragons!
while the crablike seeds of ferocious flowers cling, in a hideous green crust, to gartered black sock and sloppy white sock alike. — Vladimir Nabokov

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste. — Baltasar Gracian

Nothing matches a Sailor's kiss coming back home where he belongs. — Sameh Elsayed

Which means she to deceive, father or mother? — William Shakespeare

The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55. — Mark Twain

How can we have rain without clouds? Our troubles have always brought us blessings, and they always will, for they are the dark chariots of God's bright and glorious grace. Before long the clouds will be emptied, and every tender plant will be happier due to the showers. Our God may drench us with grief, but He will refresh us with His mercy. Our Lord's love letters often come to us in dark envelopes. His wagons may rumble noisily across the sky, but they are loaded with benefits. And His rod blossoms with sweet flowers and nourishing fruits. — Lettie B. Cowman

Behind every person there lies a story which makes them what they are. Many a time, the story isn't known to anybody. — Toffee

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show. — John Hawkes

You are what you are seen to be. — Erik Spiekermann

Guns are part of the Constitution, and no one is willing to have that tough conversation with Congress and the Senate and the president to say maybe that's got to change. People talk about it - but I mean actual change. — George Stroumboulopoulos

Do you know, I had almost lost faith in the goddess? I almost stopped believing in Her. But I realized I had to become something. I had to take what was done to me and use it to make myself into what I wanted to be. And I wanted this. And when I called Her, the goddess came. — Lev Grossman