Sardanapallus Quotes & Sayings

Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon the length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself. — Juvenal

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager. — Jules Verne

She thought of how she had never sat and had a long conversation with her father because he, too, refused to talk about himself. "Someone else should speak instead," he said. "If I don't speak, it means someone else will," which did not always turn out to be true. — Aimee Bender

What poet was it who wrote there's no pain worse than the pain of a broken heart? Sentimental shit. He should have spent more time in the Emporer's prisons. — Joe Abercrombie

When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives. — Nancy O'Dell

I'd never want to have a gun. I don't think we need guns in this country and I hate it, and I think the NRA is a disaster area. — Eric Bolling

If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress. — David Shields

In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism. — Jill Abramson

Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever. — Ugo Betti

I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes — George Soros

The locust has no king
Just noise and hard language
They talk me over — David Eugene Edwards

Liberated souls are a rare commodity in this world. They are no better; it's just you, a little later, in the next act or in the next play. — Frederick Lenz

And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn't do or what they didn't know. I don't know. I guess there would always be someone to blame. — Stephen Chbosky