Punainen Risti Quotes & Sayings

Now that Otoko had heard about the night at Enoshima, that old love flared up ominously within her. Yet in those flames she could see a single white lotus blossom. Their love was a dreamlike flower that not even Keiko could stain. — Yasunari Kawabata

The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way. — Ann Brashares

Very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound - the tumultuous motion of the heart, and, in my ears, the sound of its beating. Then a pause in which all is blank. Then again sound, and motion, and touch - a tingling sensation pervading my frame. Then the mere consciousness of existence, without thought - a condition which lasted long. Then, very suddenly, thought, and shuddering terror, and earnest endeavor to comprehend my true state. Then a strong desire to lapse into insensibility. — Edgar Allan Poe

Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture. — Sue Wicks

Try to remember the color of her eyes, and the only thing I can come up with is sad. Her eyes are the color of sadness. — Jay McLean

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied. — John Kenneth Galbraith

The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar. — Mencius

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive. — Emily Mortimer

When you really want love you will
find it waiting for you. — Oscar Wilde

The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Oh, we had a lot of sex back then in Montreal; it wasn't just me. Blame it on the cold. The roses in everyone's cheeks made them seem way more appealing than they actually were. We confused the indoors with intimacy and electric heating with connection. — Heather O'Neill

People seldom live up to their baby pictures. — Rodney Dangerfield

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. — Jeffrey Tucker