Nantes Carrots Quotes & Sayings

Most people enter a library and don't hear a thing. Eerie silence. I stand between the shelves and hear ten thousand conversations occurring all at once. Each ushering an invitation. The noise is raucous. — Charles Martin

He was a mote cycling in the wheels of a giant clock. Millions of people tended to this magnificent contraption, they lived and sweated and toiled in it, serving the mechanism of metropolis and making it bigger, better, story by glorious story and idea by unlikely idea. How small he was, tumbling between the teeth. — Colson Whitehead

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer. — Oswald Chambers

I wondered how that felt, to really like yourself. And I wondered why some people didn't like themselves and others did. Maybe that's just the way it was. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Prague is far more than the sum of its physical parts or its history. It is a city of the mind and the imagination, a city that exists as vividly in poetry and painting and music and legend as it does in brick and stone... Just as the physical city of Prague would be unimaginable without its unique topography, without its palaces, its churches, its parks, its streets, and its hostelries, so the Prague of the mind would be unimaginable without its storytellers and the tales they weave. — Paul Wilson

The more one has engaged in a particular pattern of thought, the more difficult it becomes to override these habitual patterns. — Bryant McGill

You won this job because you were the best for the job. You are smart, quick to learn, and can quickly acquire any skill you might be lacking. — Carla Harris

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent. — Llewellyn Rockwell

To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming. — David Adam

Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away. — David Nicholls

Pride also has a bill! Get ready to pay it! — Zoro