Scipioni Cornwall Quotes & Sayings

Persistence is a state of mind, therefore it can be cultivated. Like all states of mind, persistence is based upon definite causes, — Napoleon Hill

You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again. — Anne Bronte

He moved heaven and earth to find you, darling girl. — Elizabeth Hunter

Like most Istanbul Turks I had little interest in Byzantium as a child. I associated the word with spooky, bearded, black-robed Greek Orthodox priests, with the aqueducts that still ran through the city, with the Hagia Sophia and the red brick walls of old churches. To me, these were remnants of an age so distant there was little need to know about it. Even the Ottomans who conquered Byzantium seemed very far away. — Orhan Pamuk

It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war. — Sholom Aleichem

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country. — Grover Norquist

Live with your head in the lion's mouth. — Ralph Ellison

What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange. — Michel Patini

Does Raggedy Ann have a cotton crotch? — John Sandford

As the stranger came closer, Dud understood everything and welcomed it, and when the pain came, it was as sweet as silver, as green as still water at dark fathoms. — Stephen King