Silesca Quotes & Sayings

You see, Novelka, in an odd sort of way, some of our strongest relationships are with people who have died. We miss the person, we think of them, we wonder what they would want us to do, how they would want us to act. Though they are not here, they still strongly influence our lives. And so we go on loving them, sometimes even more, when they are gone. — Ann Tatlock

You will be incomplete Christians if you do not look for the coming again of the Lord Jesus — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

He knew what retributions your devils are liable to bring for the way you treat your wife and women or behave while your father is on his deathbed, what you ought to think of your pleasure, of acting like a cockroach; he had the intelligence for the comparison. He had the intelligence to be sublime. But sublimity can't exist only as a special gift of the few, due to an accident of origin, like being born an albino. If it were, what interest would we have in it? — Saul Bellow

Fantasists aren't natural readers. They grow restive easily. — Amit Chaudhuri

Only one lie is enought to make all honesty look suspicious... — Ray

What did garden-parties and baskets and lace frocks matter to him? He was far from all those things. He was wonderful, beautiful. — Katherine Mansfield

I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus. — Nicole Kidman

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. — Benjamin Disraeli

Twas now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards groan, and graves give up their dead,
And many a mischievous, enfranchised sprite
Had long since burst his bonds of stone or lead,
And hurried off, with schoolboy-like delight,
To play his pranks near some poor wretch's bed,
Sleeping, perhaps serenely as a porpoise,
Nor dreaming of this fiendish Habeas Corpus. — Thomas Ingoldsby

In all kinds of composition, there are two things necessary: first, to have something to say; second, to say it. — J. Willis Westlake

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism. — Jeffrey Sachs