Oriel Nhs Quotes & Sayings

She [Cayce Pollard] feels the things she herself owns as a sort of pressure. Other people's objects exert no pressure. Margot thinks that Cayce has weaned herself from materialism, is preternaturally adult, requiring no external tokens of self. — William Gibson

I am so tired of waking to the blank canvass of morning and realizing it won't be painted with you. — Tyler Knott Gregson

I came, one evening before sunset, down into a valley, where I was to rest. In the course of my descent to it, by the winding track along the mountain-side, from which I saw it shining far below, I think some long-unwonted sense of beauty and tranquillity, some softening influence awakened by its peace, moved faintly in my breast. I remember pausing once, with a kind of sorrow that was not all oppressive, not quite despairing. I remember almost hoping that some better change was possible within me. I came into the valley, as the evening sun was — Charles Dickens

Thou hast death in thy house, and dost bewaile anothers. — George Herbert

What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday. — Condoleezza Rice

Hank had left me his doomed army, and he'd left Marcie his inheritance. Unfair didn't begin to cover it. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Pareidolia. One of my favorite words. It's when your mind sees a pattern you recognize where there isn't one. Like seeing a face in the moon. or shapes in the clouds."
Dr. Mendez smiles and says, mostly to himself, "Pareidolia. What a beautiful word."
"For something that isn't always beautiful."
"For something that isn't always beautiful. — Jeff Zentner

There is a saying along the lines of not trying to teach a pig to sing because it wastes your time and annoys the pig. I want you to know how many times I have stood in pig-filled rooms, and longed to annoy. I — John Scalzi

Darkness always causes fear and chaos inside us. We are always scared of losing ourselves somewhere inside there. But some of us get so much used to it that we start feeling peaceful in there and we start spending more time in it. One weird thing about darkness is, we meet ourselves there. Who are very different from what we are. And once we start speaking with them we become addicted to that kind of conversations. We fall in love with the same thing that we tried to run away from out whole life. — Akshay Vasu

I realised either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world.
And of course I was right. — Jack Kerouac

The path to wisdom is paved with humility. — Tim Fargo

Two things that are not long for this world: dogs that chase cars and professional golfers who putt for pars. — Lee Trevino

All the wrong questions have been asked and the correct answers are not true. — Michael Hogan

and a hundred savage painted Indians ran howling down upon the inn yard. — Edward Eager

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater. — Karl Kraus