Pauroso Orso Quotes & Sayings

How many State of the Union addresses do people remember? They don't resonate that way. — Robert Dallek

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these. — T. S. Eliot

The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour. — Lewis Carroll

Now is the time to know that God is able. To connect your current reality with God's present ability. — Priscilla Shirer

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody's best friend. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends. — A.S. Byatt

Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side. — Jim Butcher

There is reason to fear that men love better to investigate how muslins, hay-rakes, and, above all and inclusive of all, money may be made, than how their own minds are constructed — Fitz Hugh Ludlow

The human heart has a staggering capacity for love. — Helen Beardsley

I don't think that the war serves U.S. interests. I think Osama bin Laden's interests and the Iranian interests are very much served by it, and it's becoming a huge drain on our resources both material and political. — William Odom

Stories are better than fiction, so let's hope for some real-life sequels. — Katherine Ramsland

An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen and the number of cases assimilated is the measure of experience. — Wilfred Trotter

A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be another and hidden message, contained in the old-fashioned phrases like 'shy as a violet, 'clinging vine,' not originally conceived as pejoratives, that tells more of the truth - which is that flowers are also emblems of feminine submission. — Eleanor Perenyi

Appearances are nothing ... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak. — Georges Bernanos