Segundo Montes Quotes & Sayings

I have always endeavoured, as my double duty of believer and sovereign dictated, to follow the precepts of the sacred Book of Islam: precepts of balance, justice and moderation. Although my religious education was very literal, in that I learnt to understand the precepts of the Koran precisely according to the text, we have seen that on several occasions throughout my life, I have felt myself to be very particularly in the hands of the Almighty. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

I write because I know I am only one to control the world I created in my books. — Anamika Mishra

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair. — Arundhati Roy

Everybody was feeling happy now. The sun was shining brightly out of a soft blue sky and the day was calm. The giant peach, with the sunlight glinting on its side, was like a massive golden ball sailing upon a silver sea. — Roald Dahl

When I was young, the concept of being a dreamer was a very negative one. If you were a dreamer, you were useless. You didn't contribute anything to society. But Star Trek made dreaming legitimate, and I think that was a huge, huge contribution. — Martin Cooper

I'm here, and I'm not going anywhere. I'll help you with whatever you need. — Alexandra Lanc

it takes courage to look life in the eye and say yes to the messy glory — Deborah Wiles

(You cannot control your imagination's pictures. Of — Ford Madox Ford

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian! — Michel De Montaigne

What does it feel like to be lonely? It feels like being hungry: like being hungry when everyone around you is readying for a feast. It feels shameful and alarming, and over time these feelings radiate outwards, making the lonely person increasingly isolated, increasingly estranged. It hurts, in the way that feelings do, and it also has physical consequences that take place invisibly, inside the closed compartments of the body. It advances, is what I'm trying to say, cold as ice and clear as glass, enclosing and engulfing. — Olivia Laing

So the first dinosaur bone ever found was also the first to be lost. — Bill Bryson

Addiction is just a little hiding place where sensitive people can go so we don't have to be touched by love or pain. — Glennon Doyle Melton

As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as the nation's conscience, reminding Americans of what the founders had hoped they would be and thereby providing a vivifying counterpoint to the excesses of materialist individualism. — David Shi