Recompence Defined Quotes & Sayings

There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her. — Saadi

You are a change maker and nothing should clean this notice off the boards of your heart! — Israelmore Ayivor

Disasters have a way of making us stronger in the broken places.
— James Lee Witt

New rules - we needed new rules. No one opens the main doors but me. No one leaves the property without me. No one goes outside without letting me know. I had these horrible images in my head of kids being restrained against their wills, of kids crying my name out, begging me to help them when I was powerless. Desperate times ... Lord, my soul called out. Lord ... somehow that's as far as I could get. I didn't have the words. — Laura Anderson Kurk

We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems. — Chanakya

News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they are) when they are buzzing in search of their particular nectar. — George Eliot

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. — W. H. Auden

Even when it feels as if we are being crushed by earthly troubles, we can remain joyful. If we keep our focus on God, our spirit cannot be trampled. — Mary C. Neal

JEM: Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?
WILL: They don't expect it.
JEM: Of course they don't. They know what happens when one of us consumes vampire blood. They probably expect you to have more sense.
WILL: That expectation never seems to serve them very well, does it?
JEM: It hardly serves you, either. — Cassandra Clare

You should follow your passions, you know? And you should make sure you do something you love. That's all I've learned, is that if you're doing something you love you'll work harder at it and make it happen, I can promise you that. — Tom DeLonge

The very act of accepting her position at Mademoiselle was an act of open defiance against Dick Norton, his entire family, and the gendered expectations of midcentury America. — Elizabeth Winder

The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion ... — Emanuel Swedenborg

My butt cheeks clenched so tightly that not even light could have escaped. — David Wong