Shuvalov Palace Quotes & Sayings

Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good ... — Victoria Woodhull

We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love a woman, Rand, leave her and let her find another. It will be the best gift you can give her. — Robert Jordan

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog. — Charley Reese

I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff. — Taylor Kinney

Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I roll my eyes. "Oh, the woe of being adored."
Beta Sinta grins. "It's a hard life. — Amanda Bouchet

I got to have a TV show that really was the talk of the nation for a while there. So I'm a very lucky guy. — Marc Cherry

You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, not about her children or the world, who was always suspicious, always tearing you down and splitting your dreams straight down the seams. When my first pen pal, Tomoko, stopped writing me after three letters she was the one who laughed: You think someone's going to lose life writing to you? Of course I cried; I was eight and I had already planned that Tomoko and her family would adopt me. My mother of course saw clean into the marrow of those dreams, and laughed. I wouldn't write to you either, she said. She was that kind of mother: who makes you doubt yourself, who would wipe you out if you let her. But I'm not going to pretend either. For a long time I let her say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed her. — Junot Diaz

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style. — Liam Aiken

Books were considered a sign of idleness at best and dangerous at worst. — James Rebanks

Kerwyn pulled me aside as the last of the supplies were being loaded. "Please, Jaron, don't go."
Despite his pleas, I could only shake my head. "There's no other choice now."
"I thought a little sleep would change your mind."
Placing my hand on Kerwyn's shoulder, I said, "I had the same concern, so I kept myself awake. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else ... — Robert A. Heinlein