Princess Ann Roman Holiday Quotes & Sayings

For all his dour black and stern expressions, all the whispered rumors of trick swords and cold brutality, he did not appear worthy of genuine fear. He appeared bored with life. Bored and in need of a nap. — Renee Ahdieh

Your thoughts always create your emotions. Understanding the significance of this fact is the first step in escaping from unhappiness and depression. — Richard Carlson

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. — Ambrose Bierce

The moment I absolutize my view of things, I can't be enriched by anything. (Carlos Mesters, p 119). — Mev Puleo

What can a man say about woman, his own opposite? I mean of course something sensible, that is outside the sexual program, free of resentment, illusion, and theory. Where is the man to be found capable of such superiority? Woman always stands just where the man's shadow falls, so that he is only too liable to confuse the two. Then, when he tries to repair this misunderstanding, he overvalues her and believes her the most desirable thing in the world.
"Women In Europe" (1927). In CW 10: Civilization in Transition. P. 236 — C. G. Jung

Messages are the death of an honest literary transaction with children — Maurice Sendak

The ringmaster cannot be in all three rings at once. — Jones Loflin

Where your will is ready, your feet are light. — George Herbert

Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity - two magic potions in themselves - the very essence of laughter - the unrestrained emotion within us! — Douglas Fairbanks

When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall. — Tamara Ecclestone

As a solider, Ciro had learned that good men can't fix what evil men are intent on destroying. He had learned to choose what was worth holding on to, and what was worth fighting for. Every man had to decide that for himself, and some never did. He had not survived the Great War to return home the same man. — Adriana Trigiani

She washed her hands three times. Velia gripped the sink, dropping her head and watching the tinged water drain. Trying to get a grip, she held back tears and vomit, and would have been fine if not for seeing more blood splatters on her sleeves. She held on to her last bit of strength, still refusing to cry. God, let this be a nightmare! — Mary J. McCoy-Dressel

[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World of Working Men, crude of speech, swift of action, strong of passion, straight to the heart of a new life. — Frank Norris

Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up. — Julian Morris