Pinterest Amistad Quotes & Sayings

When you cannot love or hate anymore, then where is the charm of life? — Arthur Schnitzler

I've always been into bodybuilding and keeping in shape, and I just challenge myself to see if I can continue to make improvements. — Kevin Nash

On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building. — Natasha Trethewey

They had been married for seventeen years; she lived in the deepest room in his heart. And sometimes that meant that wife occurred to him before Mathilde, helpmeet before herself. Abstraction of her before the visceral being. But not now. When she came across the veranda, he saw Mathilde all of a sudden. The dark whip at the center of her. How, so gently, she flicked it and kept him spinning. — Lauren Groff

I'll do it, Todd," I whisper. "I'll come with you."
And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in. — Patrick Ness

Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou goest. Joshua 1:9 — Anonymous

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades. — Koichi Tanaka

I think you just have to work hard for about 10 years before you know what you're doing — Ben Chestnut

Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is. — Robert Bly

The other kids sometimes teased Charlie for being a redheaded Jew, — Garth Risk Hallberg

Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Religion isn't yours firsthand until you doubt it right down to the ground. — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.

An American in London ... cannot but be impressed and charmed by the city. The momumentality of Washington, the thriving business of New York, the antique intimacy of Boston, plus a certain spacious and open feeling reminiscent of Denver and San Francisco-all these he finds combined for his pleasure. — John Updike