Princess Sultana Book Quotes & Sayings

What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. — William Shakespeare

An orange on the table
Your dress on the rug
And you in my bed
Sweet present of the present
Cool of night
Warmth of my life — Jacques Prevert

In the middle of the road of my life, I awoke in a dark wood, where the true way was wholly lost. — John Eldredge

My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not. — Anna Held

For example, when Christians discuss sex, it often sounds as if we are somehow "against sex". What we fail to make clear is that sexual passion (the good gifts of God's creation) is now subservient to the demanding business of maintaining a revolutionary community in a world that often uses sex as a means of momentarily anesthetizing or distracting people from the basic vacuity of their lives. When the only contemporary means of self-transcendence is orgasm, we Christians are going to have a tough time convincing people that it would be nicer if they were not promiscuous. — Stanley Hauerwas

Hidden places, which had been mysterious mines for exploration in leafy summer, now exposed themselves and their secrets pathetically, — Kenneth Grahame

Contemporary feminism is enamored with consumer choice and has fully accepted it as a substitute for freedom. — Holly Grigg-Spall

By stressing intrinsic value in thought. And it is true that when men have become engrossed in practical devices they are apt to narrow their field of vision and lose sight of the interconnection of the various branches of knowledge. More than that, as is now the case, they will even forget the larger principles they have applied, and on which their well-being depends. — Isabel Paterson

Why didn't I go in? I'm such a chicken. I'm such an idiot. I should have kissed her. I've blown it. I should just go and knock on her door and just kiss her. It would be romantic. It would be something we could someday tell our kids. I'm gonna do that right now.
[drives away] — Charlie Kaufman

Swimming, Freud favors the breaststroke, to keep his beard dry. — Peter D. Kramer

You must love anything you must do. Do it not only cheerfully, but also lovingly and the very best way you know how. That love of the work which you must do anyhow will vitalize your body and keep you from fatigue. — Walter Russell

I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock. — Dick Dale

People don't want information; they want epiphanies. — Sam Horn