Rajzolt Szemek Quotes & Sayings

Every human is a school subject. This is rather a metaphorical way of saying it, to put it straight, those you love are few, and the ones you detest are many. — Michael Bassey Johnson

In America everything is fantastical. — Alejo Carpentier

There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps. — Edna O'Brien

Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James) — Nora Barnacle

I was compelled to perform. When I say perform, I was compelled to go out and do my engagements and not let people down and support them and love them. In a way, by being out in public, they supported me although they weren't aware of just how much healing they were giving me. It carried me through. — Princess Diana

Experiences aren't given to us to be 'got over,' otherwise they would hardly be experiences. — Penelope Fitzgerald

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love. — Socrates

he settled down in his favorite armchair and read. Soon he was lost to all else but the rhythm of the words talking to him across the centuries. — William Meikle

Perversnes makes one squint ey'd. — George Herbert

I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked. — Patricia McConnell

O God, when I listen to the voices of animals, the sounds of trees, the murmurings of water, the singing of birds, the whistling of the wind, or the boom of thunder, I see in them evidence of Your unity; I feel that You are supreme power, omniscience, supreme knowledge, and supreme justice.
I recognize You, O God, in the trials I am going through. May Your pleasure be my pleasure, too. May I be Your joy, the joy that a Father feels for a son. And may I think of You calmly and with determination, even when I find it hard to say I love You. — Paulo Coelho

God is the great janitor of the universe. Why things don't work is that we have a janitor in charge, and we keep looking for the landlord. — Richard Kadrey

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive ... it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be. — Jennifer Weiner

You are a large country, you have many resources, and you have people who are highly capable. — Sellapan Ramanathan