Salvarae Quotes & Sayings

Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain. — Glen Duncan

In yonder nether world where shall I seek
His bright appearances or footstep trace?
For though I fled him angry, yet recalled
To life prolonged and promised race I now
Gladly behold though but His utmost skirts
Of glory, and far off His steps adore. — John Milton

War may represent the failure of diplomacy, but even the best diplomats operate on credit. Sooner or later someone who's less reasonable than you are is going to call you, and if your military can't cover your I.O.U.s, you lose. — David Weber

Every sin is the result of a collaboration — Stephen Crane

very high standard, again, involves the possession of rare virtues, and rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal. People divide off vice and virtue as though they were two things, neither of which had with it anything of the other. This is not so. There is no useful virtue which has not some alloy of vice, and hardly any vice, if any, which carries not with it a little dash of virtue; virtue and vice are like life and death, or mind and matter - things which cannot exist without being qualified by their opposite. The most — Samuel Butler

No, I'm not a vegetarian. I do eat that way. I actually eat vegan quite a lot. I feel better when I eat that way, and I think there's been a lot of proof that's come up over the last however many years, that you can't deny, I don't think, that meat or dairy aren't all that good for us. — Hayley Williams

Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions. — Howard Raiffa

I'm allowed to say the word 'retarded' because my brother has Down's syndrome and I asked him and he said it's cool. "He also said I could say the 'N' word, but he's retarded. You can't do everything he says. — Gabriel Rutledge

We are all aware that evolution happens, because we all have parents. — Bill Nye

An oil massage, a hot bath, a good night's sleep, soft smells and music and clothes with soft textures denote sensuality to me. — Padma Lakshmi

The strength of soul; love, hope and faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita