Sagoriis Quotes & Sayings

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave. — John Dryden

As I write this it sounds rather negative and hard but I do not mean it to be so. Happiness grounded in reality is far deeper than that built upon fantasy, and suffering teaches one that happiness can catch a person unawares in the midst of deprivation and desolation. There is a certain stripping away of the externals which makes one more sensitive to joy as well as to sorrow. — Sheila Cassidy

Damen watched as alone, unattended, Laurent had left his own banquet to find him, to follow him here, up the worn steps out onto the battlements. Laurent fitted himself next to him, a comfortable, unobtrusive presence that took up room in Damen's chest. They stood on the edge of the fort they had won together. — C.S. Pacat

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us. — John Taylor Gatto

When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board. — William Boyd

The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class. After all, you can hardly deride liberals as society's "elite" or present the GOP as the party of the common man if you acknowledge the existence of the corporate world the power that creates the nation's real elite, that dominates its real class system, and that wields the Republican Party as its personal political system. — Thomas Frank

Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick. — Lisa Cron

Everything that lives makes noise. What an argument for the mineral kingdom! — Emil Cioran

Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you. — Lady Gaga

I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me. — Maurice Maeterlinck

She resumed pacing, no longer able to focus on the words. Luke was coming back. Her Luke. Her hot, badass scientist. — Rachel Grant

I wish to Heaven that I might forget. It would be so much easier than to go through life always remembering what might have been. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'. — Adrian Desmond

When fate is very generous with us, there is always a well into which all our dreams can tumble. — Paulo Coelho