Rapado A La Quotes & Sayings

By 1445 they had reached the mouth of the Senegal River; in 1458 they discovered and colonized the Cape Verde Islands; by 1462 they had reached Sierra Leone; and in 1473 the Portuguese mariner Lopo Goncalves crossed the equator. — Clark B. Hinckley

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness. — Kenneth Tynan

Bully the jade, and she will love you.
("The Accursed Cordonnier") — Bernard Capes

It had been horrible, yes, and he'd never want to do it again - but it truly was his most powerful experience. — Shane Stadler

Well, what is a relationship? It's about two people having tremendous weaknesses and vulnerabilities, like we all do, and one person being able to strengthen the other in their areas of vulnerability, and vice versa. You need each other. You complete each other, passion and romance aside. — Jane Fonda

I have been growing this moustache, a budding Burt Reynolds number, for a good cause known as Movember. — David Sax

I have a nightmare about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown] killing each other. Not every month, but now and then. I also have a recurring dream about losing. — Alastair Campbell

Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries.
A lover may be drawn to this love or that love,
but finally he is drawn to the Sovereign of Love.
However much we describe and explain love,
when we fall in love we are ashamed of our words.
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear,
but love unexplained is clearer.
When the pen came to the subject of love, it broke.
When the discourse reached the topic of love,
the pen split and the paper tore.
If intellect tries to explain it,
it falls helpless as a donkey on a muddy trail;
only Love itself can explain love and lovers!
The proof of the sun is the sun itself.
If you wish to see it, don't turn away from it. — Rumi

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations. — Margaret Atwood

Tell yourself right now and throughout today, that it's okay to draw away from the maddening crowd. Jesus did; so can you. — Charles R. Swindoll