Osoby 1 Quotes & Sayings

A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it. — Conn Iggulden

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness." — Mark Leyner

She was afraid,' said Mrs. Bread, very confidently; 'she has always been afraid, or at least for a long time. That was the real trouble, sir. She was like a fair peach, I may say, with just one little speck. She had one little sad spot. You pushed her into the sunshine, sir, and it almost disappeared. Then they pulled her back into the shade and in a moment it began to spread. Before we knew it she was gone. She was a delicate creature. — Henry James

Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

I occasionally observed that he was thinking for himself and expressing his own opinion - a phenomenon so rare that I would walk any day ten miles to observe it. — Henry David Thoreau

Discipline is a given; the choice is whether it is applied internally or externally. — Orrin Woodward

An old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her. — Fanny Burney