Qaanaaq Hotel Quotes & Sayings

To say that a schlemiel is a luckless person is to touch only the negative side. It is the schlemiel's avocation and profession to miss out on things, to muff opportunities, to be persistently, organically, preposterously and ingeniously out of place. A hungry schlemiel dreams of a plate of hot soup, and hasn't a spoon. — Maurice Samuel

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion. — G.K. Chesterton

While war for love is inspiring in legends and epic poems, we must be governed by cynical pragmatism. — James L. Cambias

I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed! — Karl Lagerfeld

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. — James Baldwin

She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance. — Lian Hearn

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist. — Jacob Bronowski

Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods. — Aristotle.

One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost. — Sharon M. Draper

Did you see how she stood and faced them down? I demanded with pride. A most excellent bitch, Nighteyes agreed. — Robin Hobb

So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped. — David Knopfler

Take it from your own life, write what you believe in. — Cameron Crowe

It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks
A scarlet rain; the yellow violet
Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox
Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet,
And all the streams with vernal-scented reed
Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed. — Bayard Taylor

The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages. — Samuel Johnson