Nousi Quotes & Sayings

If I stayed in my current job, I would continue to feel a sense of emptiness, but I would be successful in the traditional sense. — Kola Olaosebikan

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. — Jean De La Fontaine

Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. — Tom Robbins

All but 50 of these officers and 200 of these sailors will return home to occupied France, rather than stay in Britain to fight the Germans. Their idea was to get out of the war — Charles Kaiser

In art, don't you see, there is no first person. — Oscar Wilde

He smiled again. "Your reputation undoubtedly precedes you."
I bristled. "I am not that curious!"
"You are curious as any cat, my love ... — Deanna Raybourn

Dwarves' tongues run on when speaking of their handiwork, they say. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Every unmortified sin will certainly do two things: - [1.] It will weaken the soul, and deprive it of its vigour. [2.] It will darken the soul, and deprive it of its comfort and peace. [1.] — John Owen

But this is my greatest need and yours: to know God, love God, delight in God, and make much of God. — Kevin DeYoung

I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me. — Erykah Badu

Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. — Rebecca West

There in the dark and the quiet I felt I could forget all the tedious particulars and just feel the presence of his mortal and immortal being. — Marilynne Robinson