Raccogliere Coniugazione Quotes & Sayings

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself. — Walter Scott

The NT, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act ... — Thomas Paine

In this day and age of texts, Twitter, and Facebook, we are very rarely surprised by anything anymore - something always leaks out and gets spoiled. — Brad Goreski

Things external to her may have their own weight and dimension: but within inside us she gives them such measures as she wills: death is terrifying to Cicero, desirable to Cato, indifferent to Socrates. Health, consciousness, authority, knowledge, beauty and their opposites doff their garments as they enter the soul and receive new vestments, coloured with qualities of her own choosing: brown or green; light or dark; bitter or sweet, deep or shallow, as it pleases each of the individual souls, who have not agreed together on the truth of their practices, rules or ideas. Each soul is Queen in her own state. So let us no longer seek excuses from the external qualities of anything, the responsibility lies within ourselves. Our good or our bad depends on us alone. So let us make our offertories and our vows to ourselves not to Fortune: she has no power over our behaviour, on the contrary our souls drag Fortune in their train and mould her to their own idea. — Michel De Montaigne

Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom. — William E. Rothschild

I have, for a very long time, been a huge admirer of Marilynne Robinson, whose work I just love. — Phil Klay

That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

He'd been young when he'd been turned, maybe late twenties. He looked tough, sinewy and strong, with close cropped sable hair and a sinfully full mouth. Yes, beautiful. Stunning, in fact.
He stared at Luna with hunger in the depths of his ice blue eyes. Even looking worn and underfed, the vampire radiated a wild danger that sent a thrill through her entire body.

What the hell! Shocked and angry with her irritatingly female reaction, she glared at the offending vampire, not bothering to disguise her loathing. Who was this freaking leech, and what was he doing to her?

- Lunacy and the Vampire by Evie Jayne — Evie Jayne

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. — Ira Gershwin

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel. — Alfred North Whitehead

My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don't have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing. — Rajneesh

The thaumaturge's gaze narrowed on Scarlet, with a hatred that could have melted skin off bones. — Marissa Meyer

Repentance is the word that gives us a second chance. — Fred A. Hartley Jr.

Somethings don't always work out the way you plan. The main thing is to keep trying, do better next time, and deal with disappointment if it comes. — Yogi Berra