Remigius Quotes & Sayings

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games ... Come from the South, blow from the wind
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North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen. — Amy Tan

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. — George Haven Putnam

In the years that she had been tying scraps to the branches, the tree had died and the fruit had turned bitter. The other apple trees were hale and healthy, but this one, the tree of her remembrances, was as black and twisted as the bombed-out town behind it. — Kristin Hannah

Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. With the exception of those who die in childhood, most men will be damned. — Saint Remigius

The achievements and discoveries of a great but dying society can bring light to a young and growing one. — Morgan Llywelyn

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. — Stephen King

Mrs. Tulliver had lived thirteen years with her husband, yet she retained in all the freshness of her early married life a facility of saying things which drove him in the opposite direction to the one she desired. Some minds are wonderful for keeping their bloom in this way, as a patriarchal goldfish apparently retains to the last its youthful illusion that it can swim in a straight line beyond the encircling glass. Mrs. Tulliver was an amiable fish of this kind, and after running her head against the same resisting medium for thirteen years would go at it again to-day with undulled alacrity. — George Eliot

If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time. — Damien Hirst

In the shape of innumerable stars. Thus was formed the Nebulae, of which astronomers have reckoned up nearly 5,000. Among these 5,000 nebulae there is one which has received the name of the Milky Way, and which contains eighteen — Jules Verne

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks. — Ambrose Bierce

My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made her give up the theatre, to my eternal cost. She was to go on acting for myself alone. A performance at his own expense, lasting for more than twenty years, tends to wear out your spectator. — Jean Anouilh