Pierdes Infinitive Quotes & Sayings

When I sat up he was looking at me. His face was hopeful and unbelieving and also a little sad, and I wondered if it was anything like my father's face when he looked at my mother all those years ago at the Dead Sea, setting in motion a train of events that had finally brought me here, to the middle of nowhere, with a boy I'd grown up with but hardly knew. — Nicole Krauss

Neither are the pig-skins, in common use to hold wine, and hung out in the sun in all directions, by any means ornamental, as they always preserve the form of very bloated pigs, with their heads and legs cut off, dangling upside-down by their own tails. — Charles Dickens

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild. — Ben Okri

Nature has placed you on the throne of royalty as the heir of all life that preceded you. — Bryant McGill

Because adoption is a lifelong journey, we have a future filled with the potential to learn invaluable lessons. But many of us haven't been taught that we have a choice in every situation in life. — Sherrie Eldridge

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach

By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water." — R. Buckminster Fuller

I lack trust in others. — Mika.

When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way. — Feist

You are really angry with me for not having appeared to you in a red glow, with thunder and lightning, with scorched wings — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being, — Ramana Maharshi

I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness. ... A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very few examples, he will be more merciful than those who, from excess of tenderness, allow disorders to arise, from whence spring murders and rapine; for these as a rule injure the whole community, while the executions carried out by the prince injure only one individual. And of all princes, it is impossible for a new prince to escape the name of cruel, new states being always full of dangers. ... Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence does not render him incautious, and too much diffidence does not render him intolerant. — Niccolo Machiavelli

For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom. — Jewel

It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle. — Walter Scott

Women are better than men in handling their emotions, that is why every happy girl is not happy. — M.F. Moonzajer