Nobutoshi Cannas Birthplace Quotes & Sayings

Damn them for tormenting me! Don't they see I'm not what they think? That they are casting upon me the weight of their own hopes? Their own dreams? No one should be asked to carry such a burden. It's impossible! He — Ian C. Esslemont

One day, she explained, he'd pass by the window and, given the correct lighting, moment, and identical gesture, his shadow would match, for an instant, the painted one. His feet tingled as he stood uneasily at the edge of the flat, dark shape. 'It's only a matter of time,' she said. — Philip Graham

A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Chapter XV.--He Entreats God, that Whatever Useful Things He Learned as a Boy May Be Dedicated to Him. 24. Hear my prayer, O Lord; let not my soul faint under Thy discipline, nor let me faint in confessing unto Thee Thy mercies, whereby Thou hast saved me from all my most mischievous ways, that Thou mightest become sweet to me beyond all the seductions which I used to follow; and that I may love Thee entirely, and grasp Thy hand with my whole heart, and that Thou mayest deliver me from every temptation, even unto the end. For lo, O Lord, my King and my God, for Thy service be whatever useful thing I learnt as a boy--for Thy service what I speak, and write, and count. For when I learned vain things, Thou didst grant me Thy discipline; and my sin in taking delight in those vanities, Thou hast forgiven me. I learned, indeed, in them many useful words; but these may be learned in things not vain, and that is the safe way for youths to walk in. — Augustine Of Hippo

I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport. — Naomi Benaron

I wrapped my hands around the familiar cup and tried to draw strength from it. It was from Thea's old Moss Rose set, remnant of careful scrimping and saving in her first year of marriage. Yet the mellow old cup now brought me no comfort, only a feeling of helplessness, of time slipping away. Sunday-best dishes gone to everyday and now to mismatched pieces. Like Thea and me — Lorena McCourtney

It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born. — Wendell Berry

All great novels are great fairy tales. — Vladimir Nabokov

Life is a beat as death is a runaway. Combine both and you'll never climb up the rope, you'll stay there forever. — Grace

I could eat every person in this room. — Tahereh Mafi

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come. — Vanessa Paradis

In that hurry to achieve, I've left little time for self-reflection. And I'm not sure I'm ready for it. — Cindy McCormick Martinusen

Thoreau loved ants. He'd meet one in the morning and spend the whole day talking to him. — Charles Simic

Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history. — Charles P. Kindleberger