Parente Lauro Quotes & Sayings

He said the only thin worse than being wrong in a family argument was being right. — Megan Whalen Turner

The man was bearing down on me. My hands were limp and wet. Please, I thought. Please. Who was I addressing? The man? God? Whoever handled these things. — Emma Cline

That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got lost in the evening and then found her way home in the dark by the streetlights of town and so returned to the people who loved her. And in the fall the days turned cold and the leaves dropped off the trees and in the winter the wind blew from the mountains and out on the high plains of Holt County there were overnight storms and three-day blizzards. — Kent Haruf

What are you going to do?,' he asked me. Me? Nothing. Something has just been broken inside me; you yourself will never be able to repair it. — Consuelo De Saint-Exupery

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost. — Kahlil Gibran

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast. — Tacitus

For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods. — Miguel Serrano

The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion under the Caesars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow that is capable of flashing forth. Every form begins by being night. The catacombs, in which the first mass was said, were not alone the cellar of Rome, they were the vaults of the world. — Victor Hugo

A human being trying to attract more love is like a fish trying to attract more water. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

He grinned a little as he thought it; for he had always liked that pause, that fearful pause, the moment before things changed. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund. — George Sand

They told me I couldn't. That's why I did. — Unknown

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative. — Sienna Miller

The challenge of life is to learn how to love — Pope Francis