P Gens Br D Quotes & Sayings

I'd never forget how it felt to say those words. To be in our place. In love with you, in love with us, in love with our secret, with the island we were building, keeping out the whole wide world. There with you, I was ... safe. — Lauren Blakely

Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Nothing takes you out of yourself the way a good book does, but at the same time nothing makes you more aware of yourself as a solitary creature, possessing your own particular tastes, memories, associations, beliefs. Even as it fully engages you with another mind (or maybe many other minds, if you count the characters' as well as the author's), reading remains a highly individual act. No one will ever do it precisely the way you do. — Wendy Lesser

Whoever defends his own rights defends the rights of all. — Ayn Rand

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us. — Aristotle.

Can life be made undignified by any act of man? — Phyllis Bottome

Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare. — C.S. Lewis

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. — George Washington

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them. — John Napier