Perfectiune Dex Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps they had tried to migrate in the past but had found either their winter habitat destroyed or the path so fragmented and fraught with danger that it made more sense - to these few birds - to ignore the tuggings of the stars and seasons and instead to try to carve out new lives, new ways of being, even in such a stark and severe landscape: or rather, in a stark and severe period - knowing that lushness and bounty were still retained with that landscape, that it was only a phase, that better days would come. That in fact (the snipe knowing these things with their blood, ten million years in the world) the austere times were the very thing, the very imbalance, that would summon the resurrection of that frozen richness within the soil - if indeed that richness, that magic, that hope, did still exist beneath the ice and snow. Spring would come like its own green fire, if only the injured ones could hold on. And — Lex Williford

Deep down in my heart, I am always smiling because life is such a magical, mysterious, and wonderful thing. — Debasish Mridha

He wanted to tell her that he'd learned a man could come to love again without betraying his first love. — C.S. Harris

Life is mostly freehand. — Ivan Doig

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror. — Nadine Gordimer

You must be hungry," said the satyr. "Either that, or your stomach speaks hedgehog. That was quite a statement in hedgehog. — Rick Riordan

We all fall on hard times," he said quietly, removing his fist from my chin. "It's just lucky for you that you fell in the right direction. — Kristen Ashley

I wrestled and played football in high school and in my last year, I started as a wrestler and actually had a fairly good record. But I hated to lose. I always gave it everything I had which, unfortunately, was not as much as I'd hoped for. But keep in mind, I feel like I got the most out of my ability. One moment that was special above all the rest was winning my last bout at the Naval Academy to finish the entire summer undefeated. That was thrilling, but what's more, it helped me in prison because the first time I got knocked around by the Vietnamese, it did not come as a total shock. — John McCain

Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber. — Antony Garrett Lisi

The old church tower and garden wall
Are black with autumn rain
And dreary winds foreboding call
The darkness down again — Emily Bronte

So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow. — Seneca The Younger

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding. — Anatole Broyard

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself. — Johannes Tauler

Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences. — Adrian Rogers