Orosius Historian Quotes & Sayings

One year, I'd completely lost my bearings trying to follow potty training instruction from a psychiatric expert. I was stuck on step on, which stated without an atom of irony: "Before you begin, remove all stubbornness from the child." ... I knew it only could have been written by someone whose suit coat was still spotless at the end of the day, not someone who had any hands-on experience with an actual two-year-old. — Mary Blakely

She snuggled close, nuzzling her hair beneath his chin. "Never leave me," she whispered back.
The siren chuckled sadly, the sound vibrating up through his chest and pleasantly against her ear. "But I must return to the sea every now and then or I will die." He sighed. "Some part of me believes it would be a good death. — Ash Gray

Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion. — Boris Spassky

Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home. — Sam Worthington

Power has an important limitation. It has to be seen as legitimate, or else its use has the opposite of its intended effect. — Malcolm Gladwell

Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life. — Janet Erskine Stuart

Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms. — Edwidge Danticat

When I make music, I try to make something that is super colorful and something you've never heard before, so when you hear the whole album, it's a good feeling. Musically that's what I aspire to do whenever I'm making an album. — Pharrell Williams

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny. — Franz Liszt

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side. — Nora Ephron

I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own. — Samantha Fox

I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago. — Baba Kalyani

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion. — Agnes De Mille

Thus I suggest that prophetic ministry has to do not primarily with addressing specific public crises but with addressing, in season and out of season, the dominant crisis that is enduring and resilient, of having our alternative vocation co-opted and domesticated. — Walter Brueggemann

From the first I was clamorous to learn ... — Eudora Welty